Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Distributed Storage
$185-221k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$185-221k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code; experience in deep diving and then owning a complex code base
- Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed storage and services
- Ability to understand and decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with a customer-first mindset, ability to abstract various customer requests into a platform vision and solution
- Experience in designing architecture that is long-term and evolvable
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, public cloud platforms (AWS, ElasticSearch, ElasticCache, Google Cloud Platform, etc) and open source preferred but not strictly required
What the job involves
- The Storage Foundation team within Airbnb’s Storage Infra org owns Airbnb's online serving storage system
- The group is responsible for designing, building and operating the software and solutions listed below. With users around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency, high availability and platform evolution are our team’s core concerns
- A new source-of-truth, open-source NewSql database built on top of stateful Kubernetes that hosts all the critical Airbnb user, listing and financial data, with all the essential DB capabilities on such as backup restore, CDC, multi-tenancy. This will also serve as the unified storage backend for Airbnb Infrastructure
- A set of managed storage services / APIs built on top of the unified backend, e.g.:
- A highly available, low-latency, distributed, multi-tenant K/V storage layer for Airbnb user profiling, Search, ML, pricing teams, supporting million-level read QPS, 99.9+% availability across thousands of customer tables
- Design and deliver a new paved path for online Graph Store that would serve as a source-of-truth Graph database, as well as a low-latency, highly available querying engine powering Airbnb’s Knowledge and Social Graph
- A set of control planes and provisioning managements for OpenSearch and ElasticCache for hundreds of Airbnb production clusters, at million+ IOPS and million+ indexing QPS
- We’re looking to add Senior Engineers who are hands-on and capable of solving broad technical challenges the team has to tackle
- As an experienced individual contributor, you will bring your technical expertise, experience and thought leadership to our organization, and start in either working groups below:
- Being part of Core DB team that builds out all the essential DB capabilities such as stateful deployment of database on Kubernetes, backup restore and disaster recovery, CDC, snapshotting, quality-of-service on a multi-tenant cluster; and then migrate existing Airbnb critical DBs to the new stack. In the longer term advance Airbnb infra’s capability towards multi-Cloud and multi-Region
- Being part of the Managed Storage Services team (1) to complete building V2 of our KV store on top of open-source NewSql database, and adding features like multi-tenant cost attribution, large-scale bulk loading, etc, (2) to participate in driving the roadmap, implement and design next set of fully managed storage services being a distributed caching, graph storage and/or pubsub, etc
- Build a fault-tolerant ingestion layer on top of open-source NewSql database to ingest TBs of data with minimal impact on online traffic
- Work with AWS to provide a secure client that complements Airbnb’s mesh layer and manage hundreds of ElasticCache customers cost-effectively
- Design and implement a seamless database migration pipeline where consistency, latency and correctness are of the utmost importance
- Work within Storage Infra and with Knowledge Graph and Search team to design and implement bulk loading and transactional API for writes, as well as efficient serving strategies around materialized views
- Participate in regular on-call and interact with key customers to understand their requirements and pain points
- 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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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