Senior Trust Platform Engineer (AI-First)

Airbnb, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a senior Trust Platform Engineer to help design and deliver scalable fraud, safety, and trust decisioning systems across Airbnb. You will contribute code, guide architecture, and collaborate with product, data science, and operations teams to drive multi-year roadmaps.

You will dive into platform components, build tooling, and champion reliability with observability, SLOs, and resilience patterns, while mentoring engineers and enabling developer-friendly DX.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps and prototyping to iterate ideas
• Exceptional communication skills across cross-functional teams and executives
• Obsessed with reliability: observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns
• Hands-on with modern languages (Kotlin/Java/Scala) and AI-assisted development workflows
• Experience building developer experience & tooling and DX
• Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for the Trust Platform
• Dive deep into Trust Platform components and build tooling
• Champion an AI-first engineering approach with LLM-powered code generation
• Partner with cross-functional teams to define platform capabilities and address evolving threats
• Lead and mentor engineers across teams to raise the technical bar

Skills

Backend & platform engineering

Exceptional communication

Kotlin/Java/Scala

AI-assisted development workflows

Reliability & observability

System design

Mentoring engineers

Education

BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or related

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Scala

LLMs / AI tooling

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a senior Trust Platform Engineer to help design and deliver scalable fraud, safety, and trust decisioning systems across Airbnb. You will contribute code, guide architecture, and collaborate with product, data science, and operations teams to drive multi-year roadmaps.

You will dive into platform components, build tooling, and champion reliability with observability, SLOs, and resilience patterns, while mentoring engineers and enabling developer-friendly DX.