Staff Software Engineer, Privacy

Join Airbnb's Privacy Engineering team to lead cutting-edge initiatives in data privacy and protection. As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of building privacy-first architectures for large-scale distributed systems. The role focuses on enhancing transparency, ensuring compliance with global privacy regulations, and building user trust through strong data privacy protections.

You'll work on complex challenges including data classification and compliance at scale, preserving AI/ML privacy, and managing user consent and data subject rights. The position requires expertise in privacy-aware AI/ML models, data anonymization techniques, and regulatory frameworks like GDPR and CCPA.

The team collaborates across multiple functions, including design, product, legal, operations, and security teams, to implement scalable privacy solutions. You'll lead multi-team technical initiatives, provide thought leadership, and drive architectural decisions to enable Privacy by Design principles throughout Airbnb's engineering and product development processes.

This is a remote position offering competitive compensation ($204,000 - $259,000), along with bonus and equity opportunities. You'll need 10+ years of software engineering experience and strong programming skills in languages like Java, Scala, or Python. The role requires deep expertise in architectural patterns and designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Join a company that has grown from hosting three guests in San Francisco to facilitating over 1 billion guest arrivals globally. You'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on user privacy and trust while working with cutting-edge technologies and contributing to Airbnb's mission of creating authentic connections worldwide.