Fullstack Engineer (contract)

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 more than 100, 000 cities and towns located in 220+ countries and regions across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and one-of-a-kind activities that make it possible for guests to experience the world in a more authentic, connected way.

Airbnb was born with a creative spirit, and it’s one of the most defining parts of our culture. We use our curiosity and imagination to come up with unconventional solutions. These are the ideas at the core of Airbnb:

• Our community is based on connection and belonging.
• Our creativity allows us to imagine new possibilities for people.
• Our responsibility is to all of our stakeholders.
• It takes a unified team committed to our core values to embody these ideas, and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company

About The Team

The Security Foundations Engineering (SFE) sub-team is responsible for foundational platforms that operationalize security programs across the company, including third-party risk, access controls, and data governance. We move fast, build for scale, and partner closely with Privacy, Infrastructure, and business teams to make security work in practice.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to design and build the Control Center, Airbnb's internal portal for vendor risk management and third-party data governance. The Control Center is the UI and operational layer that turns the existing 3rd Party Data Sharing Catalog into an actionable risk management tool: surfacing exceptions, enabling action queues, supporting drill-down visibility, and producing audit-ready reporting. This role spans both the product frontend and understand integration with backend services that power it.

What You'll Do

• Design and build the Control Center portal in production at Scale TypeScript/JavaScript + React, with Node.js on the server side, a single portal consolidating the 3P Catalog, Paved Path flows, Non-Paved Path detections, and policy enforcement workflows
• Develop React-based frontend interfaces for exception surfacing, action queues, drill-down visibility, and audit-ready reporting
• Build and maintain backend REST APIs and data pipeline components powering the Control Center UI
• Review and debug AI-generated code as part of the team's standard AI-assisted development workflow
• Understand backend ongoing catalog data hydration, deduplication, and validation pipelines
• Integrate the Control Center with downstream enforcement systems (access controls, vendor offboarding workflows)
• Collaborate with Privacy and Infrastructure teams on data classification and governance requirements
• Build observability, reliability, and operational support infrastructure: dashboards, alerting, and platform monitoring
• [Prefer to have] Build and maintain Airflow DAGs for automated pipeline orchestration

What You'll Bring (Qualifications & Expectations)

• AI-first development - Experience debugging and reviewing code, including AI-generated code, as a core part of your day-to-day workflow; this is the primary skill in our development environment
• Strong experience building full stack applications - React/TypeScript (or equivalent modern frontend framework) on the frontend, understand data model with GraphQL on the backend
• Demonstrated ability to design and build frontend interfaces for operational tooling: dashboards, action queues, drill-down views, and reporting
• Experience building REST APIs and data pipelines in Python. Can write and review GraphQL queries/mutations, understand data model constraints, and write a clear BE specs
• Comfort working across team boundaries, collaborating with partners in Privacy, Infrastructure, and Security
• Experience in security, compliance, or risk management tooling is a plus but not required
• Familiarity with internal tooling and enterprise data platforms is helpful
• [Nice to Have] Hands-on experience designing and implementing Airflow DAGs for production data orchestration
• [Nice to Have] Demonstrated experience provisioning and working with AWS infrastructure - particularly S3, Lambda, RDS, and IAM
• [Nice to Have] Strong system design skills: the ability to understand a complex existing architecture, identify the right integration points, and build new components that fit cleanly into that system

Belonging & Accommodations:

Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please connect with your talent sourcing partner.

Pay Rate Range: $120-$141/hr

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K