23 days ago
Base Salary
$196k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze query plans, execution paths, and database internals to identify and fix SQL latency issues.
- Tune storage engine behavior, including compaction, caching, indexing, and I/O, for Airbnb workloads.
- Design and implement storage-layer traffic prioritization for connection pooling.
- Investigate performance, reliability, and availability issues in the database kernel.
- Lead root cause analysis for high-severity incidents with the open-source database vendor and contribute fixes upstream.
- Own and maintain a complex open-source database codebase with clean, testable, and maintainable code.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant hands-on experience with a database storage layer or query execution engine.
- Strong SQL skills and understanding of query planning, optimization, and engine-level execution.
- Deep understanding of storage engine internals such as B-trees, LSM, compaction, indexing, and I/O, and/or query processing.
- Experience with distributed databases, including replication, consensus, and transactions, is preferred.
- Familiarity with NewSQL systems such as TiDB is a bonus.
- Experience analyzing and debugging high-severity production incidents, particularly performance and latency problems.
- Ability to work deeply in a complex database codebase; open-source contribution experience is a plus.
- Strong collaboration, communication, ownership, and delivery skills in a remote working environment.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $196,000–$230,000 USD, with potential eligibility for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Remote working environment is referenced in the role requirements.
- Airbnb provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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About Airbnb
Airbnb operates a global online marketplace that connects hosts offering homes, rooms, and unique properties with travelers seeking short-term stays and experiences. The company earns revenue primarily through service fees on bookings; founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ABNB) with over 5 million hosts and guest arrivals recorded in nearly every country.