Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's storage team to provide reliable and secure data storage solutions to customers. As a member of this team, you will work with talented engineers on cutting-edge technologies to support Airbnb's business. You will be the resident expert on data storage solutions, providing guidance to teams on effective use of technologies, 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS Aurora MySQL, Community MySQL, or MariaDB
• Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, TiDB
• Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform