The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Shape the team’s long-term vision and roadmap in close collaboration with: cross-functional partners across Airbnb
Build strong relationships with partner engineering teams, including backend,: client, data science, analytics, and ML, to drive aligned and impactful outcomes
Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines: both batch and real-time - that collect, process, and serve data from diverse sources across Airbnb
Implement robust offline and online feature building processes to enable faster production of ML products
Architect and build ML infra and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
Mentor and develop engineers on the team, while also contributing to and: influencing the broader data engineering community at Airbnb
What they're looking for
- + years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s: degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 6+ years of experience with a PhD
- Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns
- You’re passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone: cares deeply about customer impact
- You have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using: distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink
