Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Airbnb
$191,000 - $225,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience working with data infrastructure, with a focus on big data technologies.
  • Proficiency in big data technologies such as 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
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