Senior Data Engineer, Airbnb
$185-221k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-221k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5-9+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS/Masters, or 2+ years with a PhD
- Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
- Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
- Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
- Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- You will partner with the sales and product teams to build data models, to produce actionable that’s integrated with our sales platform to enable hundreds of sales people to more effectively engage with Hosts and help them be more successful on our platform
- You will also collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to iterate on the prioritization of recommendations, track conversion, and report on the business impact of this effort to iteratively improve on the quality and impact of our recommendations
- You will be instrumental in fortifying our defenses against evolving fraud attacks and safety threats by architecting data pipelines that empower trust and safety products
- Your expertise will play a pivotal role in raising the quality standards of our data assets, thereby enhancing our ability to analyze and respond to risks swiftly and effectively
- By collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of trust and safety at Airbnb, where every user feels secure throughout their Airbnb experience
- Your role will extend beyond building robust data pipelines for trust and safety; you'll also be at the forefront of driving innovation and best practices that elevate our data engineering capabilities organization-wide
- As part of the Guest Data Engineering team, you will closely work with cross-functional partners in Product, Analytics Engineering, Data Science, and ML/AI to produce high quality data tools and assets, ensure data governance, and empower partners to easily find, understand and use data
- In this role, you will play a pivotal role collaborating with the SEO team to directly impact people's ability to discover Airbnb for their next stay
- SEO operates at an incredible scale, promoting hundreds of thousands of destinations and experiences spanning a broad range of languages and international locales
- Data forms the foundation of SEO systems and platforms
- You will collaborate with a talented cross functional team to set and execute on our data strategy, to directly influence our ability to understand how guests and search engines interact with Airbnb
- You will solve compelling technical and data modeling challenges to directly influence one of the fastest-growing free and owned marketing channels
- Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources, including user interactions, listing details, and external data feeds
- Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy
- Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, to define data requirements, and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements
- Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
- Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues
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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