Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Data Warehouse Compute
$204-254k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-254k
More information about location
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 preferred
- 10+ years of experience working with data infrastructure, with a focus on big data technologies
- Proficiency in big data technologies such as Hadoop, Yarn, Spark, Presto/ Trino, Hive, and AWS EMR
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Scala
- Extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Demonstrated expertise in multi-threading and concurrency programming
- Familiar with database systems, both SQL and NoSQL
- Proven ability to collaborate with other teams to define system requirements, identify potential solutions, and test and integrate systems
- Capacity to troubleshoot and resolve complex data infrastructure problems
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
What the job involves
- Data represents the voice of Airbnb’s users at scale. The Data Warehouse Infrastructure team is responsible for the foundational big data infrastructure, which is used by hundreds of engineers to collect, manage, and analyze data at scale
- We are using open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Airflow etc
- Design and build the next generation big data compute platform to empower data ETL, analytics and machine learning at Airbnb
- Operate, manage and improve the reliability, performance, observability and cost efficiency of the platform
- Write maintainable and self-documenting code, perform code reviews
- Work on, and contribute to open source software, and have industry impact
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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