Software Engineer, Secure Development Engineering

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join
Airbnb is built on trust. The Secure Development Engineering team builds the platform that checks Airbnb's code as engineers write it. Our tooling runs in continuous integration on every pull request in our largest repositories. We are enablers, not blockers. We work closely with Developer Platform, Service Framework, Site Reliability Engineering, and our partner teams across Information Security.

The Difference You Will Make
This is a software engineering role first. You will design, build, and operate a platform that thousands of Airbnb engineers depend on many times a day. The platform runs tens of thousands of checks each month, and that number grows as we add repositories and languages.

You do not need a background in security. We will teach you the domain. We look for engineers who build reliable systems, who care about latency and developer experience, and who like to make a slow thing fast.

Success in this role looks like a platform that is faster, more reliable, and used in more places than when you joined.

A Typical Day
Here are a few things you will do in this role:

• Design, build, and operate the backend services that run our code checks inside continuous integration. You own their reliability and their latency.
• Scale the platform to new repositories, new languages, and new check types, and keep the integration simple for the teams that adopt it.
• Build and maintain the data pipelines that store results, and the dashboards that report coverage, volume, and time to fix.
• Design clear APIs and integration points so other engineering teams can plug into the platform without our help.
• Improve the developer experience. Cut noise, write useful messages, and keep the feedback loop short.
• Write tests, add instrumentation, and operate what you build.
• Support our work on AI-assisted code review. Build the evaluation datasets and the pipeline that measures output quality.

Your Expertise
These are examples of relevant profiles. If a subset applies to you, please apply.

• 3+ years of software engineering experience. You have shipped and maintained production code in at least one of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience that you build and operate backend services or platforms that other engineers use.
• Experience with developer infrastructure, such as continuous integration, build systems, or monorepos.
• Comfort with data. You can write SQL, build a pipeline, and put the result on a dashboard.
• Good testing and debugging practice. You measure before you optimize.
• Clear written communication across teams.

Experience in these areas is a bonus. None of them is required:

• Development of security tooling, static analysis, or dependency scanning.
• Knowledge of web or mobile application security.
• AWS configuration concepts.
• Measurement of output quality from large language models.

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: [email protected]. 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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. 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.  

Pay Range$162,000—$186,000 USD