Staff Software Engineer, Security

The Community You Will Join:

We are looking for people who want to make the Airbnb platform and product safer for millions of users around the world. We’d love to talk to you if you’re a talented individual who is passionate about building, designing and architecting solutions to protect Airbnb’s Product Infrastructure ecosystem. 

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role, you will drive the technical direction of our Production Infrastructure Security. You will architect, design, scale and maintain services that create a secure by default, best practices environment. In addition, you get to define what else needs to be done.

A Typical Day:

• Build tools to isolate and segment our environment to reduce security risk
• Drive automation and create best in class cloud security
• Build tools and systems to drive down least privilege & risk
• Build pipelines to enable a secure by default developer environment
• Work across functions to ensure the security of the entire production infrastructure
• Drive best in class secrets management

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of experience working on IaaS Security (AWS is preferred), Hashicorp Terraform, including OS Hardening, Kubernetes Security, Cloud Resource security config management, etc.
• Experience scaling these services at scale
• Experience finding ways to enable other engineers to develop secure products by default without requiring security expertise.
• Significant experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go or C/C++.
• Significant experience in building robust internal products/tools or production backend services at scale.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing (AWS) operations.
• Interest in building and breaking.

How We'll Take Care of You:

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: education, experience, and skills. 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. Airbnb,Inc. can employ in  states where we have registered entities. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware and Rhode Island. This list is continuously  evolving and being updated, 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.

If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: [email protected].