Senior Staff Data Engineer, Airbnb
BizTech
$244-300k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$244-300k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Your prior experience in building large scale data solutions with hands-on development experience, excellent analytical skills, flexibility, innovative thinking, problem solving, conflict management, and self-motivation will be needed
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience leading development of a modern data architecture and data governance
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience
- Working with data at the petabyte scale
- Experience designing, building and operating robust distributed data platforms (HBase, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Flink etc.)
- Experience designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices
- Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, and provide guidance to individual teams
- Working knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL)
- Experience with Java / Scala / Spark /Python
- Solid understanding of data processing needs of real-time and batch systems for transactional and analytical processing
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
What the job involves
- We are seeking hands-on expertise, to provide technical leadership to various data engineering needs in BizTech and drive the long term strategy and best practices
- This position is a pivotal technical leadership role and demands strong leadership, collaboration and influencing across the organization
- You will be working with current and emerging data platforms, guiding teams on delivery, best practices and owning accountability for data quality and data governance
- Help to define and communicate long term strategy & priorities for BizTech data needs
- Elevate Data Engineering paved path at Airbnb and help BizTech data engineers to play a significant role
- Help foster relationships with other key data engineering teams and leaders at Airbnb and influence for a better overall data story at Airbnb
- Lead designing and reviewing all aspects of modern data and analytic platforms including artifact creation such as ERD, architecture design and other technical documents
- Provide leadership and expertise in the development of logging standards, data governance, data processing principles, design patterns and practices
- Develop innovative strategies, processes and best practices to reduce technical debt, improve data quality and increase observability and reliability
- Research, design, test, and evaluate new technologies, platforms and third party products
- Be the voice of the engineer and maximize the growth and impact of other senior engineers through mentorship and advice
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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