Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging.
travel accommodations • collaborative economy • hospitality
2 days ago
🏡 Remote – Anywhere in California
Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging.
travel accommodations • collaborative economy • hospitality
• Your work will directly contribute to a safer and more reliable Airbnb experience for millions of users. • Develop innovative solutions to combat fraudulent activity and data scraping, protecting both hosts and guests. • Continuously identify and mitigate emerging bot threats, ensuring the platform remains secure. • Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to design and implement powerful machine learning pipelines for bot detection and mitigation. • Architect and build distributed ML services capable of handling massive data processing and model serving at scale. • Leverage your expertise to contribute to and improve existing tools within the Airbnb ML platform. • Uncover attack patterns through data analysis and develop features to enhance the effectiveness of ML models. • Design and implement countermeasures (backend systems or APIs) to thwart scraping attempts based on identified patterns.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably backend-focused. • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or a similar language. • Expertise in building and deploying distributed systems. • Familiarity with ML concepts and tools (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) is a plus. • Experience with big data technologies like Spark or Airflow is a plus. • Experience in a fast-paced, innovative environment. • Stellar analytical and problem-solving skills. • Top-notch communication and collaboration skills. • Bonus points for: • Experience with data engineering or data analysis. • Experience building end-to-end ML systems. • Understanding of architectural patterns for large-scale applications
• 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.
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