Software Engineer, Storage

Airbnb

21h•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 mission of the Ingestion 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 asynchronous 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. 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 the online data exports platform and guide and collaborate with our internal product teams to effectively use the platform.

Requirements

3+ years of relevant industry experience.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and a desire to deepen your expertise in this area.
Ability to write clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code.
Experience onboarding to and contributing to a complex codebase.
Enthusiasm for learning and growing your skills in infrastructure engineering.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to distributed caching systems, KV stores, or similar infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

Build and operate data ingestion system that enables various ways of accessing data at Airbnb, including ingest DB data in the warehouse in various formats and frequency, and stream change data capture (CDC) at near real time.
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.
Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues. Be part of the oncall rotation for the DBExports platform.