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. The Community You Will Join: - At Airbnb, if there’s anything related to money, it comes to the Payments team. - We are building a world-class payments and commerce organization - one that currently supports 191 countries, 70 currencies, connects dozens of payment providers and banks, processes multiple billions of dollars, and empowers more people to participate in our global marketplace. - Our Payments platform organization has 2 domains: Payments and Commerce platform - facilitating money movement and exchange of value while also fueling growth for our business. Payments Compliance and Payments Risk - ensuring safe and efficient payment processing - This role is in the Payments Risk and Compliance domain. The Staff Platform Manager Suspensions, Appeals and Enforcements role, reporting to the Director of Payments Risk and Compliance, will define the strategy and product roadmap for enabling world class Post Payments experiences, focussed on Suspensions, Appeals, Account actions and Enforcements, ensuring Airbnb is able to protect and grow our community. The Difference You Will Make: - This role will own the product vision, strategy, and execution for critical post-transaction flows that sit at the intersection of customer experience, risk mitigation, compliance, and payments operations. - Your mandate is twofold: Reduce friction and insult for good users through transparent, fair, and highly reliable post-transaction experiences. Deter and enforce against bad actors through principled risk management, clear enforcement pathways, and scalable operational tooling. - Success in the role is to measurably reduce good user insult while deterring fraudulent and malicious actors. - Part of the immediate need is to be able to identify customer chokepoints across disparate suspensions and appeals processes across the aforementioned teams and develop solutions A Typical Day: - A typical day will involve assessing precision and customer experience in everyday operational actions such as account enforcements, suspensions and appeals. The candidate will be interface daily with analytics, operations, developers & policy stakeholders to identify pain points and develop solutions - The candidate will define the end-to-end product vision for a best in industry experience for suspensions, enforcements and appeals. They’ll build a multi-year roadmap that balances business efficiency, regulatory compliance, financial risk containment, and delightful customer experience. - The candidate will own requirements and execution for the systems that ingest, triage, and resolve post-transaction issues, spanning user-facing surfaces, internal tooling, and agent workflows. Build scalable enforcement pipelines, including automated suspensions, graduated penalties, and structured appeal processes. - Partner with Machine Learning, Decision Science, and Risk Engineering to build models that predict abusive patterns, detect misuse, and identify valid appeals. - Collaborate with Payments Operations and Support to reduce manual effort, handle edge cases better, and unlock high-quality decisioning at scale. - Key to success for this role is to partner deeply with other Airbnb platform organizations such as Fraud & Safety, AirCover, Legal, Customer Support, Policy Enforcement & Payments Operations teams to align on the vision and mission and coordinate tactics to deliver mutually aligned outcomes. Your Expertise: - 9+ years of Product Management experience, or 6+ years with a BS/MS with significant work in payments, risk/fraud, chargebacks/, or marketplace integrity. - Strong understanding of post-transaction payment flows, consumer protection frameworks, and global chargeback rules. - Systems thinker with the ability to architect modular processes that scale globally. Ability to make principled, high-judgment decisions in ambiguous, high-stakes environments. Takes ownership of multiple product areas or one with significant impact, establishing clear expectations, driving communication, quality and timely delivery. Experience designing end-to-end user experiences that balance risk mitigation with customer empathy. - Adapts communication style according to the audience across teams, extended stakeholders and leadership. Empathetic, clear communicator who can lead cross-functional partners through influence, not authority. Autonomously communicates, influences and aligns stakeholders on the products vision/strategy - With minimal guidance defines products that sustain the changing needs of business, industry, users and partners with Eng/Design to translate to long term architecture and Ecosystems thinking, with clear understanding of platform capabilities to be built - Strong analytical chops—you’re comfortable diving into financial & customer data, operational metrics, and model performance. Proven ability to partner deeply with engineering, design, operations, data science, and legal/compliance teams. - Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving regulatory requirements and complex trade-offs. 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. 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 $194,000—$239,000 USD

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This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll take a leadership role in shaping the platform’s architecture and scaling infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the business. - Drive key initiatives in automation, security, observability, and incident management. - Mentor senior engineers, set best practices, and influence the long-term technical direction of the platform. - Take full ownership of the platform's cloud infrastructure, architecting and optimizing large-scale systems. - Lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) at scale. - Own the strategy for CI/CD pipelines, ensuring scalability and optimization. - Lead incident response efforts and define disaster recovery strategies. - Define and implement observability standards for logging, monitoring, and alerting. - Contribute to security best practices in infrastructure and platform services. - Mentor and lead engineering teams, guiding senior engineers and providing leadership on complex projects. - Work cross-functionally with leadership and other teams to define long-term technical roadmaps. - Champion thought leadership in platform engineering by evaluating emerging technologies and sharing insights. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus. - 7+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a backend or platform focus. - Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred, but proficiency with any major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure) is acceptable. - Proven track record of driving complex technical initiatives from planning through execution to successful completion. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate system performance and troubleshoot issues. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly. - Demonstrated ability to partner with organizational leadership to help shape engineering strategy. - Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed. Requirements - Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred. - Proficiency with any major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure) is acceptable. Benefits - Flexible vacation policy and a fully remote work policy. - 100% Medical/Dental/Vision insurance covered for the employee / 60%-65% covered for dependents. - Comprehensive 401K program. - FSA and Commuter Benefits. - Competitive Equity with a 4 year vesting schedule. - Life / AD&D and Disability Coverage. - Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that powers our product, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and secure. You will work with cloud technologies, automation tools, and observability systems, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize platform performance and mentor junior engineers. - Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure to support the scalability, reliability, and performance of our platform. - Automate infrastructure management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to streamline provisioning and scaling of cloud resources. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and continuous integration, ensuring that our development cycles are efficient and reliable. - Containerize applications, ensuring that our services are highly available, scalable, and easily deployable. - Improve platform performance and optimize backend systems, contributing to performance bottlenecks resolution and system troubleshooting. - Monitor platform health by setting up observability tools and ensuring proactive alerting and issue resolution. - Contribute to security best practices in infrastructure and platform services, ensuring the system adheres to industry security standards. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth platform operations, offering technical insights to development teams and resolving platform-related blockers. - Troubleshoot and resolve incidents during on-call rotations, ensuring minimal downtime and fast recovery. - Mentor and support junior engineers by sharing knowledge and providing guidance on technical decisions and best practices. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). A Master’s degree is a plus. - 4+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, with a backend or platform focus. - Strong hands-on experience with GCP is preferred, but proficiency with any major cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure) is acceptable. - Proven track record leading technical projects from design through implementation. - Demonstrated strength in statistical and analytical thinking, with the ability to break down complex systems, evaluate performance metrics, and derive actionable insights. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Bay Area candidates preferred, or open to occasional travel as needed. Requirements - Client Side: React, Webpack, vanilla Typescript/Javascript for SVG layout, rendering, and styling. - Server Side: Node.js with Express for API and server side rendering, various distributed node.js microservices. - Infrastructure on Google Cloud: App Engine, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Stackdriver, Storage. Benefits - Flexible Time-Off & Remote Work - Health Insurance – 100% employer-paid Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees; 60–65% coverage for dependents. - Retirement Plan – Comprehensive 401(k) program. - Savings Accounts – Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options available. - Equity Compensation – Competitive equity package with a 4-year vesting schedule. - Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance – Coverage provided where applicable. - Parental Leave – Inclusive leave for birthing and non-birthing parents; policies vary by state. - Volunteer Time Off (VTO) – Paid day off to support a nonprofit or community cause.