Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a hospitality and travel platform that connects hosts and guests through stays and experiences. The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and development of large-scale batch and real-time data systems, ML infrastructure, and feature-building processes supporting Communication and Connectivity products. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, technical architecture, mentoring, and engineering leadership.
Responsibilities
- Shape the team’s long-term vision and roadmap in close collaboration with cross-functional partners across Airbnb
- Build strong relationships with partner engineering teams, including backend, client, data science, analytics, and ML, to drive aligned and impactful outcomes
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines - both batch and real-time - that collect, process, and serve data from diverse sources across Airbnb
- Implement robust offline and online feature building processes to enable faster production of ML products
- Architect and build ML infra and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
- Mentor and develop engineers on the team, while also contributing to and influencing the broader data engineering community at Airbnb
Skills
- 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
- Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns
- You have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink
- Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
- Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams
- Experience working on/with end-to-end Machine Learning products
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. [Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list](https://careers.airbnb.com/) . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- This position is US - Remote Eligible.
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