Staff Data Engineer, Airbnb
Data AI-Listings & Structured Data
$204-255k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-255k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ 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
- Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
- Experience designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices
- Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL)
- Strong expertise with Java / Scala / Spark and operating on data at the petabyte scale
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
What the job involves
- Users, Listings and Marketplaces Data and AI (ULM-DnA) Org is a group of passionate machine learning, data, and analytics engineers responsible for creating new data products that drive quality understanding and bookings
- You’ll be part of the overall Guest and Host organization that is responsible for the Airbnb web and native apps used by hundreds of millions of our guests and Hosts
- As a Data Engineer, you’ll collaborate closely with backend and analytics teams, product partners, and fellow data and ML engineers to execute on these opportunities
- There is also the chance to work directly with ML engineers to develop integrated data and machine learning solutions
- Ultimately, your work will contribute to raising the overall quality of listings on Airbnb and improving the end-to-end product experience
- Architect and productionize batch and real-time data systems to power products for Airbnb Guests and Hosts, or our business/sales teams
- Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems with thoughtful quality systems and monitoring
- Tune, productionize, and optimize data systems powering Airbnb products
- Collaborate with product teams to extract data requirements from product specs to develop scalable and flexible systems
- Collaborate and build relationships with partner engineering including backend/client, data science, analytics, and ML
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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