Staff Software Engineer - Core Services (Auth Infra)

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make:

Auth Infrastructure: This team is responsible for building the infrastructure around Airbnb’s authentication and authorization systems. Authentication systems encompass credential and sessions management. Authorization systems enable permission management for all Airbnb platform products and services across internal and external Airbnb communities. Together these systems provide developers at Airbnb with the best-in-class infrastructure to build secure and trustworthy applications.

A Typical Day: 

This engineer on Auth Infra will work on distributed systems that have higher reliability and security requirements than most backend systems or services. The Auth infra systems have a large number of critical services, and any downtime across these services can result in a hard downtime for the Airbnb platform. In addition, we collaborate closely with the product and infra engineering teams to build new features and evolve the systems to meet the engineering challenges from the business growing and evolving.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include

• Designing and implementing new authentication and authorization systems. This could involve designing new protocols, implementing new features, or integrating with existing systems.

• Maintaining and debugging existing authentication and authorization systems. This could involve fixing bugs, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, or adding new features, code reviews.

• Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems.

• Staying up-to-date on the latest security threats and trends. This could involve reading security blogs, attending conferences, or taking security courses.

Collaborating within and broadly across the Airbnb tech community. Working with other engineers on Airbnb wide initiatives, collaborating with external teams - partners and stakeholders, and ensuring that team success makes Airbnb platform and community successful.

Your Expertise:

• Experience working on distributed systems and evaluating trade-offs

• Experience working in Authentication or Authorization systems is a plus

• Proficient in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, communicating future direction, success criteria and progress.

• Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact

• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions

• Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity

• Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team 

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.