Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Workflow Orchestration
$200-250k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Job no longer available
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$200-250k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data infrastructure
- Experience working with data storage and distributed processing technologies, such as Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink or SQL databases
- Strong programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, or Scala
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Extensive background in workflow orchestration solutions such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Azkaban, Oozie, Prefect or Kubeflow
- Strong communication skills and the ability to learn quickly within a collaborative environment
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure required to support our workflow orchestration platform
- You will work closely with our infrastructure engineers, data engineers and other users of the data warehouse to ensure that the infrastructure is scalable, efficient, and reliable
- Architecting and designing scalable, reliable, and highly available data infrastructure solutions to support our workflow orchestration platform and meet the needs of the company’s increasing demands
- Developing and maintaining automation tools to streamline deployment and management of our platform
- Collaborating with other teams to ensure that our platform is integrated with other systems and services as needed
- Managing and prioritizing multiple projects and tasks, and communicating progress, risks and status updates to stakeholders and senior leadership
- Conducting research and staying up to date with emerging technologies, tools, and trends in data infrastructure, and recommending new solutions to improve our internal products
- Developing and maintaining the technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives
- Leading the workflow orchestration team in the design and development of high-quality software solutions
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery
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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