Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Unified Data Store (UDS) team and build and operate a reliable, scalable, and global system-of-record storage infrastructure. As a Senior engineer, you will be responsible for developing an ORM service for easy data access and a schema management platform for efficient data definition and management. You will collaborate with experienced engineers on a modern distributed storage system, providing expertise in data storage and high-performance infrastructure service APIs. The role is US-Remote Eligible, requiring residence in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. The position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Good understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
• Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment

Responsibilities

• Build and operate an ORM service that provides a flexible and easy to use experience for storing and accessing system-of-record product data, while all aspects of the implementation complexity such as storage, indices, data placement, replication, security and lifecycle management would be abstracted away for the product developers
• Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb
• The end-to-end solution covers data modeling, schema definition, schema life-cycle management, and runtime schema discovery

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits