Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

Summary

Join Airbnb's storage team to provide reliable, secure, performant data storage solutions to customers, working with talented engineers on cutting-edge technologies. As a member of this team, you will be the resident expert on data storage solutions, providing guidance to teams on effective use of technologies and their usage in large-scale architecture and performance optimization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems
• Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
• Experience writing software in scripting languages like Python or Ruby
• Experience in Java, Go, C++, or Rust

Responsibilities

• Operate and support Airbnb database systems currently running on AWS Aurora
• Partner with teams across the organizations to drive performance, security, scalability, availability, reliability, observability for relational databases
• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around relational databases, including schema management, monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, and more
• Design, automate, and document database operations
• Diagnose and effectively communicate the root cause of database issues Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues
• Participate in incident response activities
• Document and present incident postmortems
• Serve on an on-call rotation to address high-priority issues as they arise

Benefits

• US - Remote Eligible
• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits