Senior Software Engineer, Unified Data Store

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:

UDS (Unified Data Store) team's mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, and global system-of-record storage infrastructure for all Airbnb. The team is responsible for building and operating the storage system that stores all the critical Airbnb user, listing and financial data.

With over 150 million Airbnb users and hosts around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency, security and world class user experience are our team's core tenets. As a member of this team you would be working with top latent engineers on a modern distributed database system. You will be the technological expert on data storage systems, high performance infrastructure service APIs, as well as provide guidance to Airbnb product teams on the effective use of technologies in large scale systems and performance optimization.

The Difference You Will Make:

Unified Data Access Gateway

• 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.

Schema and Compliance

• 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.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ 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

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

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How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$191,000-$225,000 USD