Airbnb Staff Data Engineer Guest & Host Products 

United States 

450991862

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 a Staff Data Engineer to own critical data assets for Marketplaces, and Competitive Intelligence. You will be operating with a high level of autonomy, collaborating directly with product, business partners, and peer engineering teams to align on data and reporting requirements.

• Architect and productionize batch and real-time data systems to power products for Airbnb Guests and Hosts, or our business/sales teams
• Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems with thoughtful quality systems and monitoring
• Tune, productionize, and optimize data systems powering Airbnb products
• Design long-term marketplaces data models for optimal storage and retrieval and to meet critical product and business requirements
• Collaborate with product teams to extract data requirements from product specs to develop scalable and flexible systems
• Collaborate and build relationships with partner engineering including backend/client, data science, analytics, and ML

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 6+ years of experience with a PhD
• Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
• Deep expertise with modeling data for reporting
• 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.