Software Engineer, Airbnb
KV Stores & Caching
$157-185k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157-185k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and a desire to deepen your expertise in this area
- Ability to write clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code
- Experience onboarding to and contributing to a complex codebase
- Enthusiasm for learning and growing your skills in infrastructure engineering
- Exposure to distributed caching systems, KV stores, or similar infrastructure is a plus
What the job involves
- The KV Stores & Caching team within Airbnb's Online Data org owns and operates critical pieces of Airbnb's online serving storage systems
- Specifically, the team owns and is responsible for:
- A highly available, low-latency, distributed, multi-tenant K/V store for Airbnb
- This platform is used by user profiling, Search, ML, and pricing teams, supporting millions of read QPS and providing 99
- 9+% availability across thousands of customer tables
- A set of control planes and clients that manage ElasticCache clusters for hundreds of Airbnb production clusters, at million+ IOPS and million+ indexing QPS
- A scalable, reliable, performant distributed coordination service supporting many mission-critical systems (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, Zookeeper, etc)
- You will contribute to building and scaling the critical infrastructure that powers Airbnb's online serving storage systems, working on challenging technical problems in distributed systems while learning from experienced engineers
- Examples of the types of projects you will work on include:
- Implementing features to evolve our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases
- Improving caching solutions used across Airbnb
- Implementing observability features that help teams debug latency issues across the caching stack
- Developing tooling to safely perform rolling upgrades across hundreds of cache clusters
- Profiling and optimizing hot paths in our KV client libraries to reduce P99 latency
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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