Remote Staff Software Engineer, Transactional Storage Services

Summary

Join Airbnb's Transactional Storage Services team as a Staff or Senior Staff-level Software Engineer to design, build, and operate a new source-of-truth open-source NewSQL database running on top of stateful Kubernetes. As a member of this team, you will work with talented engineers on a modern distributed database system and act as the resident expert on data storage solutions.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience
• Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed NoSQL or NewSQL databases and services
• Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience in deep diving and then owning a complex code base
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
• Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, Networking, Security offerings. E.g. external-dns, route53, ebs etc

Responsibilities

• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSQL database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc
• Be the point of contact for a stateful system running on top of Kubernetes infra interfacing with AWS networking and security APIs
• Design, automate, and document database operations; de-noise for the team
• Conduct case studies of Airbnb’s disaster recovery scenarios, leverage existing open source and/or design software that satisfies Airbnb’s requirements on database backup and restore, cross-region data resiliency, PiTR, etc
• Collaborate with vendor and open source communities to define the correct paved path in this area
• Read and comprehend existing open-source code to understand the system's functionality and architecture. Propose and implement enhancements to the database system, ensuring performance, scalability and reliability
• Contribute code, documentation, and bug fixes back to the open-source community
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in database technologies and distributed systems. Experiment with new tools and technologies to improve the database system
• Mentorship and leadership in general Participate in regular on-call and interact with key customers to have insights on pain points and gaps, improve team’s operational rigor
• Coach more junior members of the team and guide them on iterating on designs and solving the right problems, provide insightful design and code review feedback