Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Distributed Transactional Database 

United States 

897738682

The Difference You Will Make:

We’re looking to add Staff engineers who are hands-on and capable of solving broad and deep technical challenges in the following areas:

• Query and Server
  • Read and comprehend existing open-source code to understand the system's functionality and architecture, especially around query compilation and performance, as well as change data capture.
  • Propose and implement enhancements to the database system, ensuring performance, scalability and reliability. Contribute code, documentation, and bug fixes back to the open-source community.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in database technologies and distributed systems, and influence the company’s long-term roadmap and strategy.
  • Investigating issues of a modern, distributed database running at scale, spanning storage, query, routing layers. Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues, and participate in incident response activities, document and present incident postmortems
• Control Plane and Operations
  • Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.
  • Design, automate critical database operations such as centralized and hierarchical config management system, fully automated image building and release certification for major version upgrades, zero-downtime Blue/Green deployment.
  • Be part of the team that defines and delivers a generalized database platform for partner KVStore, ORM, MySql teams.
• Migration and Adoption
  • Deliver a zero-downtime forward and reverse replication pipeline with near-real-time consistency between two transactional databases, with correctness guarantee across transactional boundaries. Deliver a robust failover/failback mechanism to guarantee correctness and continuity during unexpected outages.
• Mentorship and leadership in general
  • Participate in regular on-calls and improve the team's operational rigor.
  • Coach more junior members of the team and guide them on iterating on designs and solving the right problems, provide insightful design and code review feedback.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed NoSQL or NewSQL databases and services.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Experience in deep diving and then owning a complex code base.
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.
• Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, Networking, Security offerings. E.g. external-dns, route53, ebs etc.

Nice to Haves

• Experience in Java, Go, Rust or C++
• Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes, operator pattern, helm, etc; experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform
• Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling

Offices: United States