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Software Engineer, Secure Development Engineering

Build and operate a backend platform that runs code checks across Airbnb’s continuous integration systems, emphasizing reliability, latency, APIs, data pipelines, and developer experience. Requires 3+ years of software engineering experience and production experience with a modern programming language.

162k – 186k/yr
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate backend services that run code checks inside continuous integration, owning reliability and latency.
  • Scale the platform to new repositories, languages, and check types while keeping integrations simple for adopting teams.
  • Build and maintain data pipelines that store results and dashboards reporting coverage, volume, and time to fix.
  • Design clear APIs and integration points for other engineering teams.
  • Improve developer experience by reducing noise, writing useful messages, and shortening feedback loops.
  • Write tests, add instrumentation, and operate the systems you build.
  • Support AI-assisted code review by building evaluation datasets and pipelines that measure output quality.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Production experience with at least one of Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Experience building and operating backend services or platforms used by other engineers.
  • Experience with developer infrastructure such as continuous integration, build systems, or monorepos.
  • Ability to write SQL, build data pipelines, and create dashboards.
  • Strong testing and debugging practices, with a measurement-driven approach to optimization.
  • Clear written communication across teams.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Security tooling, static analysis, or dependency scanning.
  • Web or mobile application security.
  • AWS configuration concepts.
  • Measuring output quality from large language models.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base pay range: $162,000–$186,000 USD.
  • Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Skills

JavaKotlinPythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLcontinuous integrationbuild systemsmonoreposAWSstatic analysisdependency scanningLLMs
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