Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

• The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts
• We’re hiring across multiple teams within our organization. Explore the section below to learn more about each team and the opportunities available
• The KV Stores & Caching team within Airbnb’s Online Data org owns and operates critical pieces of Airbnb’s online serving storage systems. Specifically, the team owns and is responsible for:
• A highly available, low-latency, distributed, multi-tenant KV store for Airbnb. This platform is used by user profiling, Search, ML, and pricing teams, supporting millions of read QPS and providing 99.9+% availability across thousands of customer tables
• A set of control planes and clients that manage ElasticCache clusters for hundreds of Airbnb production clusters, at million+ IOPS and million+ indexing QPS
• A scalable, reliable, performant distributed coordination service supporting many mission-critical systems (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, Zookeeper, etc)
• The mission of the Ingestion team in the Online Database Infrastructure org is to provide a managed, reliable, performant and scalable platform for exporting data out of Airbnb’s online databases for asynchronous processing. The team currently builds and operates two managed solutions - one for near real time access to change logs (CDC) and another to provide periodic mutation and full table snapshots
• As a member of this team you would be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies to help support Airbnb’s business. You will be the resident expert on the online data exports platform and guide and collaborate with our internal product teams to effectively use the platform
• Lead a team of developers to deliver multi-quarter cross functional projects
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in data ingestion systems and evaluate and incorporate new technologies and methodologies to improve the existing data ingestion architecture/solution
• Influence the team’s and organization’s long-term roadmap and strategy
• Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and technical standards in the team
• Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues. Be part of the oncall rotation for the Ingestion team

Benefits

• Paid volunteer time
• Health food and snacks
• Generous parental and family leave
• Learning and development
• Annual travel and experiences credit- Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability
• 9+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You’ve architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems