Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Users, Listings and Platforms team as a product engineering leader to drive the development of batch and streaming data processing systems, work at the intersection of online and offline data, storage layers, and stream processing, contribute to open-source software, lead architecture redesign initiatives, and evangelize high-quality software engineering practices.

Requirements

• 12+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering and distributed systems
• Strong expertise in batch & real-time data processing technologies like Flink, Spark, and building high-performance, data-intensive systems
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and building services for Kafka at scale
• Proficiency in designing and implementing GraphQL-based APIs
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience with Java / Scala / Spark and operating on data at the petabyte scale
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across team boundaries and provide guidance to individual teams
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a track record of collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering leaders and teams

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of batch and streaming data processing systems
• Work at the intersection of online and offline data, storage layers, and stream processing to create innovative solutions
• Contribute to and work with open-source software, making an impact on the industry
• Lead the execution of our next-generation architecture redesign initiatives
• Evangelize high-quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale
• Work with partners across orgs (client, backend, ML, and analytics teams) to design and deliver high-quality systems
• Create paved paths and best practices for data processing systems and drive alignment and adoption across the company
• Lead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for serving data pipelines that power product engineers across Airbnb to be productive and create delightful user experiences
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
• Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable
• Mentor engineers both within and outside the team

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits