Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Database Infrastructure 

United States 

1287692

The Difference You Will Make:

• Operate and support Airbnb database systems currently running on AWS Aurora
• Partner with teams across the organizations to drive performance, security, scalability, availability, reliability, observability for relational databases.
• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around relational databases, including schema management, monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, and more.
• Design, automate, and document database operations.
• Diagnose and effectively communicate the root cause of database issues
  • Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues
  • Participate in incident response activities
  • Document and present incident postmortems
  • Serve on an on-call rotation to address high-priority issues as they arise

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience
• Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
• Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems
• Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
• Experience writing software in scripting languages like Python or Ruby
• Experience in Java, Go, C++, or Rust

Nice to Haves

• Experience with AWS Aurora MySQL, Community MySQL, or MariaDB
• Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, TiDB
• Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform