Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Data Authoring Platform
$196-230k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$196-230k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in a hands-on software engineering role, shipping high quality code to production
- Experience with at least one modern, general programming language
- Experience at the boundary between data engineering and software engineering
- Experience with a data platform with multiple abstraction or semantic layers
- A deep understanding of OOP and API design patterns
- Experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
- Strong communication skills and a track record of leading projects across teams
- [Bonus points] Proficiency authoring DSLs or APIs that abstract data transformations (e.g., dbt, Airflow Providers, custom compilers)
- [Bonus points] Experience with data warehouse technologies
What the job involves
- As a member of this team you would be working with talented engineers on building infrastructure to solve cutting edge semantic layer and data transformation problems. Our platform provides democratized access to data
- You will make it easier for thousands of internal users to build and consume high quality data models, data pipelines, and business critical metrics to enable tactical and strategic decision making at all levels of Airbnb across product, finance, operations and other areas
- In particular, engineers, designers and other product leaders will leverage the tools you work on to explore and develop new product experiences from ideation to implementation at scale. They will be able to experiment with product concepts and make the correct choice about what is right for our customers
- We believe data is the voice of our customers at scale. The tools you build will help improve the Airbnb product for every guest and host
- Build and extend the capabilities of our query rewriting service
- Research the latest semantic layer techniques and database engine features to determine what Minerva’s priorities should be
- Partner with teams across the company to improve the impact of data, especially by making it easier to query data
- Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call
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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