Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Data Catalog
$212-265k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$212-265k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data infrastructure
- Experience working with data storage and distributed processing technologies, such as Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink or SQL databases
- Strong programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, or Scala
- Experience with data catalog products – metadata infrastructure, metadata management, metadata integration framework and tooling, metadata-driven data management
- Experience with workflow orchestration solutions (e.g. Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow, etc..)
- Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks, policies, and processes, including data classification, data lineage, data quality, data privacy and retention
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build empathetic tools and platforms
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure organization and lead our efforts in building Data Catalog infrastructure products across Airbnb’s Data Ecosystem
- In this role, you will work with cross-functional teams to develop and build infrastructure, tooling, standards, and processes to ensure all data assets at Airbnb are cataloged, discoverable and governed
- Develop and implement data catalog products to support Airbnb data users on data discovery, metadata management, data quality, data lineage
- Develop and implement metadata infrastructure to support data governance and processes, including ownership management, data classification, data privacy, access control and data retention
- Build industry leading end to end data lineage product across online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualizations and third party datasets
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure all datasets at Airbnb are cataloged, governanced and meeting business goals and regulatory requirements. Conduct programs to define and ensure metadata quality and metadata governance requirements
- Work with various data infrastructure framework teams to identify, design and build metadata integrations to provide data catalog products for each data system
- Build infrastructure toolings and processes for scalable metadata onboarding and integrations
- Develop and implement metadata driven data policies and procedures to support data governance requirements
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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