Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Airbnb

5h•Remote

About The Position

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts. We’re hiring across multiple teams within our organization. Explore the section below to learn more about each team and the opportunities available. The Transactional Storage Services team sits within Airbnb’s Online Data organization that owns all of Airbnb's online serving stores and databases. The group is responsible for designing, building and operating a new source-of-truth, open-source NewSql database running 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. The mission of the DBExports team in the Online Database Infrastructure org is to provide a managed, reliable, performant and scalable platform for exporting data out of Airbnb’s online databases for offline processing. The team currently builds and operates two managed solutions - one for near real time access to change logs (CDC) and another to provide periodic mutation and full table snapshots. The UDS (Unified Data Store) team within Airbnb's Online Data org owns and operates the platform that stores critical user, listing, and financial data for more than 150 million users and hosts worldwide. As a member of this team, you will serve as a technical expert in transactional databases and high-performance infrastructure service. You will also collaborate with product teams to drive the effective use of the service, focusing on performance optimization, reliability, and scalability. The Difference You Will Make: Be hands-on (code, design, test) and collaborate with cross team partners (internal customers, dependencies and leadership) to deliver on multi-month projects in a timely fashion. Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc. 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.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building and operating large scale core backend distributed systems like storage, data ingestion, backup and restore, streaming.
Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base.
Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems
Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
Demonstrate strong ownership and consistently deliver in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

Be hands-on (code, design, test) and collaborate with cross team partners (internal customers, dependencies and leadership) to deliver on multi-month projects in a timely fashion.
Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.
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.