Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Transactional Storage Services 

United States 

417756040

The Difference You Will Make:

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

• Database Substrate
  • Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.
  • Be the point of contact and investigation for a stateful system running on top of Kubernetes infra interfacing with AWS networking and security APIs.
  • Design, automate, and document database operations, de-noise for the team.
• Database Resiliency
  • Conduct case study of all Airbnb’s disaster recovery scenarios, leverage existing open source and/or design software that satisfies Airbnb’s requirements on database backup and restore, cross-region data resiliency, PiTR, etc.
  • Collaborate with vendor and open source communities to define the correct paved path in this area.
• Database Server
  • Read and comprehend existing open-source code to understand the system's functionality and architecture. 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. Experiment with new tools and technologies to improve the database system.
• Mentorship and leadership in general
  • Participate in regular on-call and interact with key customers to have insights on pain points and gaps, improve 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 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.