Software Engineer, Payments

The community you will join

Payments at Airbnb allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission. We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we’ll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.

The difference you will make

Payments Infrastructure team’s mission is to create great infrastructure experiences and ensure Payments products are reliable, scalable and performant. We build foundational infrastructure frameworks for Payments Product teams, optimize the Payments AWS infrastructures, and are also responsible for driving infra related OKRS and initiatives across Payments.

A few examples include:
A database migration framework that can support massive, in parallel online and offline data migration from source databases to destination databases that may have different DB schema and even different DB engines.  
An end to end money movement monitoring system that can monitor, detect, alert and even mitigate possible issues(for example: a stuck payout) happening in any integrated payment flows.
Deep analysis of all the AWS Infras used by Payments and come up with plans on their best utilization for the purpose of engineering excellence and cost saving. Examples: MySql 8.0 upgrade, Redis Serverless migration.
Creating tools, standards and processes to improve the high availability and performance of Payments services and flows in the production and non-production environments. Examples: a standardized way of reporting and propagating errors throughout payments, redefining Payments Availability through the automatic calculation of Failed Customer Interactions. 
Enabling solutions of scaling out/up, global replication and evolution of Payments storage systems for the purpose of Payments multi-region, disaster recovery, business continuity or to meet the regional payments regulation requirements. 

A typical day

As a software engineer you have the chance to collaborate with not only all the other product teams in payments but also the overall Airbnb Infra teams. You can work on work items that are broken down from a big infra initiative, you also have the opportunity to drive a medium sized project end to end with TPM’s support. The work you do will have a big impact on the foundation of the payments product and the whole payments org. Your  responsibilities will include:

• Working with senior engineers and TPM in the team, understands what Payments engineers mostly need in developer infra and production infra, contributing to the design and implementation of the technical solutions that can solve their needs.
  Partner with the overall Airbnb Infra team and also payments product engineers, drive medium sized infra related projects as part of a big Airbnb infra evolution. 
• Solve the identified technical issues related to the availability, scalability and performance of the payments flows, services, storage systems etc.
• Work on the major pieces of the unique infrastructure needs of payments due to big business initiatives or technical initiatives, this may involve building frameworks for e2e payment observability and anomaly detection in order to improve stuck payout or double payout, or setting up a separate payments environment for payments regulation purpose or disaster recovery. 

Your Expertise

• 2+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in CS or related field
• Strong coding skills in Python/Java/Scala or equivalent
• Strong ownership and experience building and operating  high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle.
• The ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner.
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and scalability.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience and expertise in working with distributed storage / database systems (MySQL, TiDB/CockroachDB, HBase, Cassandra, Redis, etc) is preferred.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc) is preferred.
• Knowledge of Payments and Commerce is preferred.

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 and 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.