About the position
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. At Airbnb, we want to build a world where anyone can belong anywhere – and the first step in that direction is creating a community that’s open, inclusive, and built on trust. In a world where our digital presence and identity is as important as our physical presence, we believe that a fundamental part of earning this trust is by ensuring that we protect our users, the data they entrust to us, and our infrastructure. The Information Security team plays a critical role in maintaining and building our community’s trust in our platform that enables millions of users to explore the world and belong anywhere. As a critical horizontal function within Airbnb, Information Security spans the scope of the company and organizations that make it up to secure Airbnb giving anyone who joins the team the ability to see all aspects of the business.
Responsibilities
- Support, scale, and advance security or related functions through practical applied uses of data analytics, ML models, and integration of genAI and LLM models.
- Provide strategic approaches and methodologies to advance security disciplines working with large scale structured and unstructured data.
- Build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for security disciplines.
- Identify, drive, and support opportunities where Information Security disciplines can benefit from your area of expertise.
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations, and data scientists.
- Work through ambiguity to detailed solutions and drive initiatives to completion.
- Develop processes where little exists across large organizations.
- Drive technology changes to improve capabilities to protect Airbnb.
Requirements
- 12+ years of industry experience in applied Machine Learning.
- A Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS/ML or related field.
- Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills.
- Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices and algorithms.
- Experience with 3 or more of these technologies: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, data warehouse.
- Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning models.
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software applications.
- Experience with test driven development, A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment.
- Experience with Information Security or similar domains.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in developing and communicating effective and pragmatic strategies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to dive into details with engineers and business partners while also communicating at an executive level.
Benefits
- Base pay range of $244,000—$307,000 USD.
- Bonus eligibility.
- Equity options.
- Employee Travel Credits.
