Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Distributed Transactional Database
$204-255k
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-255k
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 distributed NoSQL or NewSQL databases and services
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure fundamentals
- Experience in deep diving and then owning a complex code base
- Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
- Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment
- Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, Networking, Security offerings. E.g. external-dns, route53, ebs etc
- Experience in Java, Go, Rust or C++
- Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
- Experience with Kubernetes, operator pattern, helm, etc; experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform
- Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling
What the job involves
- We’re looking to add Staff engineers who are hands-on and capable of solving broad and deep technical challenges
- Read and comprehend existing open-source code to understand the system's functionality and architecture, especially around query compilation and performance, as well as change data capture
- Propose and implement enhancements to the database system, ensuring performance, scalability and reliability. Contribute code, documentation, and bug fixes back to the open-source community
- Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in database technologies and distributed systems, and influence the company’s long-term roadmap and strategy
- Investigating issues of a modern, distributed database running at scale, spanning storage, query, routing layers. Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues, and participate in incident response activities, document and present incident postmortems
- Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc
- Design, automate critical database operations such as centralized and hierarchical config management system, fully automated image building and release certification for major version upgrades, zero-downtime Blue/Green deployment
- Be part of the team that defines and delivers a generalized database platform for partner KVStore, ORM, MySql teams
- Deliver a zero-downtime forward and reverse replication pipeline with near-real-time consistency between two transactional databases, with correctness guarantee across transactional boundaries. Deliver a robust failover/failback mechanism to guarantee correctness and continuity during unexpected outages
- Participate in regular on-calls and improve the team's operational rigor
- Coach more junior members of the team and guide them on iterating on designs and solving the right problems, provide insightful design and code review feedback
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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