Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Data Engineering
$191-223k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$191-223k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5-9+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS/Masters, or 2+ years with a PhD
- Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
- Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
- Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
- 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)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- Payments: As Airbnb expands its presence, it faces a host of unique challenges: managing this large volume of data, deriving information and insights from it, using it to make informed business decisions, and creating data-powered products
- This problem is more relevant today, as our entire payments infrastructure is undergoing a major overhaul, with systems being redesigned in a service-oriented architecture
- We also want to ensure that our financial data has high fidelity, is available in a timely fashion, is comprehensive, is organized in a way that is easy to understand, and is easily discoverable
- Apps and Compliance: Our team charter is on enabling Airbnb to comply with Tax, Payments, and Legal regulations so that our Hosts can continue to operate in regulated geos
- Our products ingest, process, validate, and deliver large datasets to government authorities (often partnered with tax remittance) so our data must be of the highest accuracy and quality
- As you build and maintain key components of the critical Compliance data ecosystem, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to creating standards and best practices for Airbnb’s Data Engineering
- Your work on solving complex business challenges at scale will be instrumental in shaping the tools, processes, and standards used by the broader data community
- Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources, including user interactions, listing details, and external data feeds
- Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy
- Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, to define data requirements, and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements
- Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
- Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues
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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