Airbnb Senior Staff Data Engineer BizTech 

United States 

551308515

A Typical Day:

• Help to define and communicate long term strategy & priorities for BizTech data needs
• Elevate Data Engineering paved path at Airbnb and help BizTech data engineers to play a significant role
• Help foster relationships with other key data engineering teams and leaders at Airbnb and influence for a better overall data story at Airbnb
• Lead designing and reviewing all aspects of modern data and analytic platforms including artifact creation such as ERD, architecture design and other technical documents
• Provide leadership and expertise in the development of logging standards, data governance, data processing principles, design patterns and practices
• Develop innovative strategies, processes and best practices to reduce technical debt, improve data quality and increase observability and reliability
• Research, design, test, and evaluate new technologies, platforms and third party products
• Be the voice of the engineer and maximize the growth and impact of other senior engineers through mentorship and advice

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters in CS/EE, or 9+ years with a PhD
• Working with data at the petabyte scale.
• Experience designing, building and operating robust distributed data platforms (HBase, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Flink etc.)
• Experience designing and deploying high performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices.
• Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, and provide guidance to individual teams.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL)
• Experience with Java / Scala / Spark /Python
• Solid understanding of data processing needs of real-time and batch systems for transactional and analytical processing
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal