Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's KV Stores & Caching team as a Staff or Senior Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of critical online serving storage systems. You will work on a highly available, low-latency, distributed K/V store used by various teams at Airbnb. Responsibilities include adding advanced caching, designing caching solutions, rearchitecting the KV write path, and building frameworks for high-traffic migrations. This role requires 9+ years of relevant experience, strong collaboration skills, distributed systems expertise, and a knack for writing clean code. The position is US-remote eligible, with occasional office work possible. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated strong collaboration and communication skills while working across teams and organizations, ideally in a remote environment
• Distributed systems and infrastructure fundamentals - you’ve built high scale, high performance, business critical software before and supported it oncall
• A knack for writing clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code
• Experience onboarding to and contributing to a broad and complex code base
• You have an eye for engineering best practices and know how to guide a team towards them through leadership and mentorship

Responsibilities

• Add advanced hotkey caching in front of our KV store to handle DDoS and skewed read/write scenarios without engineering intervention
• Design and implement caching solutions for all of Airbnb
• Rearchitect our KV write path to remove big chunks of infrastructure while improving our replication lag
• Build frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed caching systems and/or KV stores
• Experience building on top of AWS

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits