Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Database Infrastructure
$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
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
- Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems
- Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
- Experience writing software in scripting languages like Python or Ruby
- Experience in Java, Go, C++, or Rust
Desirable
- Experience with AWS Aurora MySQL, Community MySQL, or MariaDB
- Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, TiDB
- Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling
- Experience with AWS and/or GCP
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform
What the job involves
- Airbnb storage team’s mission is to provide reliable, secure, performant data storage solutions to our customers to help achieve Airbnb’s mission
- Storage team’s responsible for building, managing, and operating mission critical data storage solutions whether it’s transactional, NoSQL, KV, document, caching store
- As a member of this team you would be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies to help support Airbnb’s business
- You will be the resident expert on data storage solutions to provide guidance to our teams on the effective use of technologies, their usage in large scale architecture and performance optimization
- Operate and support Airbnb database systems currently running on AWS Aurora
- Partner with teams across the organizations to drive performance, security, scalability, availability, reliability, observability for relational databases
- Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around relational databases, including schema management, monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, and more
- Design, automate, and document database operations
- Diagnose and effectively communicate the root cause of database issues
- Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues
- Participate in incident response activities
- Document and present incident postmortems
- Serve on an on-call rotation to address high-priority issues as they arise
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
Some 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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