Airbnb Senior Staff Data Engineer Guest & Host Products 

United States 

61666085

A Typical Day:

We are in the middle of tremendous growth and transformation in the data domain, with significant investments into smarter products powered by Machine Learning. We are seeking product oriented Senior Staff Data Engineers to drive both entity models across Users, Listings, and Marketplace and product initiatives across Quality, Merchandising, and Host Growth/Success.

• Develop and automate large scale, high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems to power Airbnb’s Guest and Host products, machine learning models, and business insights.
• Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale, collaborate with infrastructure teams to streamline best practices.
• Set a high bar for data and engineering quality ensure eng deliverables are reliable, efficient, well documented, testable, & maintainable.
• Design our data models for optimal storage and understanding, with thoughtful dataflows to power critical product and business requirements.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 9+ years of experience with a PhD
• Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
• Experience designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices.
• Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL).
• Strong expertise with Java / Scala / Spark and operating on data at the petabyte scale.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.