1 month ago
Base Salary
$212k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and extend Minerva ’s core services, including the query rewriting service.
- Scope ambiguous problems with users and partner teams, propose solutions, and deliver them end to end.
- Track semantic-layer techniques and database-engine capabilities to inform platform priorities.
- Partner across Airbnb to improve how data is queried and consumed.
- Own system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and on-call responsibilities.
- Drive cross-team projects from design through launch and support experimentation, metrics, and data-platform use cases.
Requirements
- 9+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, primarily building and deploying production applications and services rather than configuration and SQL.
- Deep proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose language such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Experience working on data platforms or data tooling and understanding how users work with data.
- Ability to independently scope and drive ambiguous, cross-team projects from design through launch.
- Strong command of object-oriented programming, API design, and distributed-systems patterns.
- Strong communication skills and experience working across complex team and system interfaces.
- Preferred experience with experimentation platforms, metrics or semantic-layer platforms, BI or analytics platforms, query engines, query rewriting or optimization, data-warehouse internals, DSLs, compilers, or APIs that abstract data transformations.
Benefits
- US remote eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with the manager.
- Eligible employees may receive bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Airbnb provides disability accommodations throughout the recruitment process.
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.