Staff Production Security Engineer

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 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.

The Community You Will Join:

We are looking for people who want to make the Airbnb platform and product safer for millions of users around the world. We’d love to talk to you if you’re a talented individual who is passionate about Airbnb’s Product Infrastructure security.

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role, you will drive the technical direction of our Production Infrastructure Security. You will architect, design, scale and maintain services that create a secure by default, best practices environment. In addition, you get to define what else needs to be done.

A Typical Day: 

• Partner and work Work across functions to ensure the security of the entire production infrastructure
• Drive automation and create best in class cloud security
• Build pipelines to enable a secure by default developer environment
• Drive best in class secrets management
• Security architecture, design, and code reviews across infrastructure
• Establish security goals across other departments

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of infrastructure or application security (SWE or Security Engineer) 
• 3+ years of experience working on IaaS Security (AWS is preferred), Hashicorp Terraform, including OS Hardening, Kubernetes Security, Cloud Resource security config management, etc.
• Experience scaling services at scale
• Experience finding ways to enable other engineers to develop secure products by default without requiring security expertise.
• Experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, Go or C/C++.
• Significant experience in building robust internal products/tools or production backend services at scale.
• Working knowledge of cloud computing (AWS) operations.
• Interest in building and breaking and solving large cross functional security challenges.

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: [email protected]. 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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Pay Range$200,000—$254,000 USD