Staff Data Engineer, Airbnb
$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
- Experience working on/with end-to-end Machine Learning products is a significant plus
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
What the job involves
- We collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes product managers, frontend and backend engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to influence and build company-wide product releases
- We develop innovative data systems that empower partners to make critical business decisions, enable product engineers to create scalable online systems with optimized user experiences, and collaborate with machine learning engineers to build AI/ML systems
- Additionally, we work with our global business/sales team to develop business tools that optimize their workflow, significantly impacting Airbnb's revenue
- We are seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define and realize our technical vision, implement best data practices, and influence key stakeholders to build high-quality data models that empower our products
- Build the team’s long-term vision and roadmap by working with a cross-functional team at Airbnb
- Mentor and coach data/analytics engineers on the team and influence the broader data community at Airbnb
- Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources across Airbnb
- Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems through thoughtful quality systems and monitoring
- Tune, productionize, and optimize data systems that power Airbnb products and AI/ML use cases
- Collaborate and build relationships with partner engineering teams, including backend/client, data science, analytics, and ML
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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