Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for their Unified Data Store (UDS) team. The role focuses on building and operating a reliable and scalable storage infrastructure for Airbnb, ensuring data access and compliance while collaborating with product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a highly performant, available, and scalable data access gateway that provides a simple and unified experience for accessing online product data, while all aspects of the implementation complexity such as storage, indices, data placement, replication, security and data lifecycle management would be abstracted away from the product developers
• Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb and be able to satisfy broad compliance requirements. The end-to-end solution covers object relation model (ORM), schema definition, schema life-cycle management, and runtime schema discovery

Requirements:

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience
• Hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
• Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment
• Ability to leverage cutting edge AI technologies to build world-class solutions