Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in more than 100, 000 cities and towns located in 220+ countries and regions across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and one-of-a-kind activities that make it possible for guests to experience the world in a more authentic, connected way.

Airbnb was born with a creative spirit, and it’s one of the most defining parts of our culture. We use our curiosity and imagination to come up with unconventional solutions. These are the ideas at the core of Airbnb:

• Our community is based on connection and belonging.
• Our creativity allows us to imagine new possibilities for people.
• Our responsibility is to all of our stakeholders.
• It takes a unified team committed to our core values to embody these ideas, and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.
  
  

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead our efforts in identifying, securing, and preventing the leakage of data. This role will involve designing and implementing robust controls to safeguard our data infrastructure while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure security best practices and privacy compliance. We’d love to talk to you if you’re a talented individual who is passionate about finding security weaknesses and crafting highly scalable solutions. We are enablers who make it easier for engineers to create secure features, not blockers.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and implement systems to identify and protect sensitive and personal data.

Build and uplevel end to end Data Protection Platform (DPP) to automatically classify the Airbnb data and protect the data based on the classifications with various strategies such as uplevel and scale services for automatic detection, classification and annotation, which may include implementing Regex patterns and apply advanced machine learning models and Regex patterns for all types of data storages such as Relational and Non-relational databases, Cloud Storage, Code with structured and unstructured data.

Design and enforce controls to prevent data leakage across various platforms. Automate security enforcement at scale, collaborate with data platform teams and product teams for data governance best practice, such as Notifications, Call to action, or Access Revocation.

Collaborate with Data Infrastructure to design and build complex back end architecture that are both performant and scalable to provide a deep understanding of the risk of all Airbnb data, such as data ownership, data access, and data lineage etc.

Contribute to robust access controls, encryption and data masking to protect sensitive data and enable responsible AI/ML.

Integrate AI/ML into security practices to bring greater contextual awareness and wherever possible. E.g. Leverage LLMs for advanced data discovery and classification, data security incident response etc.

Other highly relevant work include:

Contribute the platform to manage and provide visibility of all the 3rd-party vendors integrated with the Airbnb platform and protect the Airbnb user data shared with vendors

Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure, leveraging AWS cloud technologies. Find opportunities to expand Data Loss Prevention (DLP) coverage on AWS-Corp, Azure, GCP and OCI.

Collaborate with security teams, privacy engineering, data management, data governance to ensure compliance with data protection regulations

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to data security and infrastructure.

Belonging & Accommodations:

Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please connect with your talent sourcing partner.

Pay Rate Range: $70-82/hr

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K