Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Database Infrastructure Service
$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-259k
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
- Hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
- Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base
- Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment
What the job involves
- UDS (Unified Data System) team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, and global system-of-record storage infrastructure
- The team is responsible for building and operating the storage system that stores all the critical Airbnb user, listing and financial data
- We’re looking to add Staff or Senior Staff-level engineers who are hands-on and capable of solving broad technical challenges in the following areas:
- Unified Data Access Gateway
- Build and operate a data access gateway that provides a simple and unified experience for accessing and managing online product data, while all aspects of the implementation complexity such as storage, indices, data placement, replication, security and data lifecycle management would be hidden from the product developers
- AirSchema
- Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb. The end-to-end solution covers schema definition, life-cycle management, and runtime schema discovery
- Data Ingestion
- Build and operate data ingestion system that provides developers with diversified ways of accessing data at Airbnb, including ingest DB data in the warehouse in various formats and frequency, and ingest DB data into streaming system at near real time
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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