Senior Engineering Manager, Trust Platform

The Community You Will Join: 

Over two million people stay on Airbnb every night and the Trust Engineering team keeps our hosts and guests safe and supported throughout the entire Airbnb experience.

As part of the Trust Engineering team you will be in charge of designing and building scalable and robust systems to detect and mitigate fraud across our entire platform. You will be deeply involved in the technical details of building highly available and real-time risk detection services in close collaboration with product, data science and operations teams to understand ever evolving attack vectors and to make Airbnb the most safe and trusted community. There are still many unsolved problems to tackle in both online and offline risk, and we're looking for talented engineering managers to solve these challenges with us.

 

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a backend team responsible for powering the detection and mitigation of fraud at scale across Airbnb. The team is responsible for many  Trust foundational systems, such as the rules engine, friction framework, and the vendor API gateway, and supports one of the highest throughput systems across the company. The team’s vision is to provide a central rule and policy engine to power all fraud detection, mitigation, and policy enforcement at Airbnb. The team works closely with the Trust defense teams to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks, and build platform features to enable Trust product teams to quickly build frictions, rules, and enforcement tools for agents.

A Typical Day: 

As the engineering manager on this team, you will play a key role in shaping the future of the platform that will be used to enforce all policies across Airbnb. You will get to work with cross functional stakeholders across Payments, Community Support Products, and the Hosting teams to support all operational workflows through our rule and policy engine. You will also play a strategic role in building user facing tools to enable non-engineers to quickly deploy defenses and operationalize policies, while investing in analytics and data tools to improve the efficacy of our rules and policies. You also will have the opportunity to lead the team to design, build, and maintain highly scalable and reliable systems, while also defining the experience for the 100+ developers using our platform by investing in developer tooling. You will have the opportunity to work with a team of product managers, data scientists, and engineers to strategically define the roadmap, build long term vision to support the changing business needs. You will also collaborate closely with cross functional partners across Trust, Payments, and Support Products to ensure that all fraud trends and compliance requirements are addressed.

Your Expertise:

• 7+ years of full stack engineering experience and 5+ years of hands-on technical management experience
• Familiar with the latest backend technologies, such as Java. Familiarity with Scala is a plus. 
• Experience with platform architecture patterns and best practices.  Experience with building and leading infrastructure is a plus.
• Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.
• Retained, mentored and hired senior engineers and leaders with a track record of building productive, world-class engineering teams. 
• Effectively worked with senior leadership in setting strategic 6+ month direction.
• Experience with effectively creating alignments with multiple teams and operating well in ambiguity 
• Track record in partnering with recruiting to build incredible engineering teams
• Actively coached and mentored team members in their careers
• Been actively involved in setting product strategy
• Consistently made culture choices that positively impact all of engineering
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between $190,000 and $245,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application,, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.