1 month ago
Base Salary
$248k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership across Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering work involving cloud cost, traffic and bots, and infrastructure intelligence.
- Define and own Airbnb’s multi-year data strategy and architecture for foundational data assets and build cross-organizational support for execution.
- Own measurement of AI training and serving economics, GPU fleet utilization, and developer AI tooling cost and adoption.
- Design and build datasets integrating cost, utilization, performance, and reliability signals across infrastructure fleets.
- Remain hands-on in the pipelines and models being architected.
- Influence and coach distributed Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers through design reviews, code reviews, frameworks, and automated checks.
- Resolve conflicting requirements across Infrastructure, Finance, Data Science, and Product Engineering and establish shared definitions.
- Eliminate duplication and fragmentation by driving adoption and deprecation of replaced data assets.
- Participate in the on-call rotation for owned datasets.
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS or Master’s degree in data engineering or a closely related field, or 9+ years with a PhD.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale production data pipelines.
- Strong SQL and Python skills; Scala experience is useful but not required.
- Ability to design dimensional models and define trusted metrics.
- Ability to become productive in unfamiliar technical or data domains and model their underlying systems effectively.
- Experience serving as a technical lead who sets direction for senior engineers without formal authority while continuing to write code.
- Experience creating multi-year technical strategies and securing organizational funding and execution.
- Experience building data products without an existing schema or precedent and driving adoption.
- Ability to align multiple teams on contested technical decisions and explain data models to both finance partners and engineers.
Benefits
- US-remote eligible, with occasional office work or offsite attendance as agreed with the manager.
- Applicants must live in a state where the applicable Airbnb entity is registered; approved states are listed in the posting.
- Role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Base pay range is $248,000–$310,000 USD.
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.