Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Transactional Storage Services team at Airbnb as a Staff or Senior Staff-level Software Engineer to design, build, and operate a new source-of-truth: an open-source NewSQL database running on top of stateful Kubernetes. This will host critical Airbnb user, listing, and financial data, with all the essential DB capabilities, like backup restore, CDC, and multi-tenancy.

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
• 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