Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Airbnb

8h•Remote

About The Position

Search is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that connects our guests and hosts. It helps guests find the best homes and experiences to fit their needs and wants. We collaborate with cross-functional partners to revolutionize Airbnb search experience, and advance Airbnb's mission to help anyone feel like they can belong anywhere. Work on search infrastructure engineering projects to improve search experience, in collaboration with product teams. Up-level search system reliability, scalability and performance, in collaboration with Infrastructure teams. Use the data in the Knowledge Graph to power rich product use-cases and also enrich the existing data based on measurement Build the next generation search platform to power different products at Airbnb, including typeahead, contextualizing and personalizing search results.

Requirements

BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics is required.
Exceptional coding skills in Java and Python and clear understanding of Algorithms/Data structures.
80% of the time coding.
Analyzing and deriving insights from large data sets by applying simple ML techniques is required.
New Graduates may also apply if able to provide evidence of having written large amounts of code/building systems.

Nice To Haves

Willingness to try, experiment and learn new concepts with a positive attitude to work is highly desirable.
Open source committers to Lucene/ElasticSearch are very welcome!
Good technical writing skills are desirable.

Responsibilities

Work on search infrastructure engineering projects to improve search experience, in collaboration with product teams.
Up-level search system reliability, scalability and performance, in collaboration with Infrastructure teams.
Use the data in the Knowledge Graph to power rich product use-cases and also enrich the existing data based on measurement
Build the next generation search platform to power different products at Airbnb, including typeahead, contextualizing and personalizing search results.
Implement important components of the search platform, with GitHub Copilot as your assistant.
Analyze large amounts of data, build hypotheses, experiment, learn and iterate.
Give technical presentations/proposals to partners, add documentation about existing systems.
Discuss with cross-functional partners (e.g., product managers, designers) on the technical design of an exciting new search feature.
Attend an in-person gathering with team members and partners.