Senior Software Engineer, Authentication Infra

The Community You Will Join:

Authentication Infrastructure: This team is responsible for building the infrastructure around Airbnb’s authentication systems. Authentication systems support core capabilities around credentials and sessions, along with their lifecycle, security and reliability. Together these capabilities provide developers at Airbnb with the best-in-class infrastructure to build secure, flexible and trustworthy login and signup flows for global reach.

The Difference You Will Make:

This engineer will work on distributed systems with focus in the domain of authentication, that have higher reliability and security requirements than most backend systems or services. The systems owned by the team are critical to the availability of the Airbnb platform. In addition, the team collaborates closely with the product, security and infra engineering teams to build new capabilities and evolve the Authentication system to meet the engineering challenges as the business is growing and evolving.

A Typical Day: 

• Designing and implementing in distributed systems. The role is very hands-on and requires expertise in designing significant parts of the auth systems, implementing core features in collaboration with other team members, formulate well-thought out rollout and testing plans, and be able to participate in team’s on call.
• Maintaining and debugging existing authentication and authorization systems. This could involve fixing bugs, improving test coverage, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, adding new features, code reviews and creating dashboards for better observability into the systems.
• Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems. Partner with stakeholders to understand their feature requests, design, implement and ship them as per expectations.
• 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
• An ideal candidate should be proficient in Java to be most effective in their role. 
• Experience working in Authentication systems is a plus
• Proficient in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, writing effective post-mortems from security incidents, etc.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
• Are motivated to contribute to a good team culture
• 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. 

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