Senior Staff Data Engineer, Marketplaces DNA

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Airbnb

Airbnb

Airbnb is the world's largest community-driven hospitality company, offering homes and experiences in 191 countries. It is an online marketplace connecting people to unique accommodations and experiences globally.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
5K-10K
Founded 2008

Description

  • Own and drive entity data models for Users, Listings, and Marketplaces used across product and ML systems.
  • Design and implement scalable data architectures and thoughtful dataflows optimized for storage, latency, and high-volume processing.
  • Develop and automate large-scale, high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems to power products, ML models, and business insights.
  • Collaborate with software, ML, and analytics engineers and data scientists to align on data flow, foundational data models, and critical data sources.
  • Partner closely with infrastructure teams to improve scalability, data governance, monitoring, logging, and operational efficiency.
  • Evangelize and establish high-quality software engineering practices for data infrastructure and pipelines, ensuring deliverables are reliable, testable, documented, and maintainable.
  • Advocate for and implement a high bar for data and engineering quality across teams.
  • Provide cross-team guidance on overarching data architecture and help individual teams operationalize best practices.
  • Drive product initiatives across domains such as Quality, Merchandising, and Supply Growth through data-driven solutions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent experience), or 9+ years with a PhD.
  • Proven experience collaborating with client, backend, ML, analytics teams, product managers, and business partners.
  • Experience designing and deploying high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases and advanced SQL/query authoring.
  • Strong expertise with Java or Scala and Apache Spark, operating on data at petabyte scale.
  • Experience building and automating large-scale batch and streaming data processing systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture and provide guidance to teams.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Must be located in a US state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (role is US - Remote Eligible; may include occasional office or offsite attendance).

Benefits

  • Base pay range: $244,000 — $305,000 USD.
  • Role may be eligible for bonus and equity.
  • Access to Airbnb benefits (unspecified) and Employee Travel Credits.
  • US-remote eligible with flexibility for occasional office or offsite work as agreed with manager.

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