Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Event Logging
$200-254k
This role may also be eligible for bonus and equity
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-254k
This role may also be eligible for bonus and equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record of at least 8 years as a data engineer or software engineer, with a strong focus on large scale data processing and analytics
- Deep understanding of software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices
- Proficiency in at least one programming language commonly used within Data Engineering, such as Python, Java, or Scala
- Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
- Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization
- Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse)
- Proficient in data serialization formats such as JSON, Avro, Protobuf or Parquet
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience with their data-related services (e.g., S3, EC2, EMR, Dataflow)
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git, SVN, Mercurial) and expertise with CI/CD practices
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented Data Engineer to join our Central Data Engineering organization to help us design and develop high quality, well governed, and efficient instrumentation and logging pipelines. In this role, you will work with cross-functional data producer & consumer teams to develop and implement instrumentation at Airbnb
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions within Airbnb’s Offline Data Platform
- Design, build, and maintain large-scale, distributed data processing systems and pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable data ingestion, storage, transformation, and analysis
- Develop scalable, fault-tolerant, and performant software components and frameworks for data processing and analytics
- Optimize and tune data pipelines and infrastructure to enhance overall system performance, reliability, and scalability
- Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale
- Design our data models for optimal storage and retrieval and to meet critical product and business requirements. Understand and influence logging to support our data flow, architecting logging best practices where needed
- Identify and address data quality and integrity issues through data validation, cleansing, and data modeling techniques
- Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure the health and high availability of our data infrastructure and its pipelines
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends in data engineering and software development
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior data engineers, fostering their technical growth and professional development
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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