Staff Software Engineer, Tech FoundationsActive$204K

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.
  • + years of relevant industry experience