Senior Staff Engineer, Airbnb
App Foundation
$244-304k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$244-304k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering and distributed systems
- Strong expertise in batch & real-time data processing technologies like Flink, Spark, and building high-performance, data-intensive systems
- Hands-on experience with Kafka and building services for Kafka at scale
- Proficiency in designing and implementing GraphQL-based APIs
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and experience with Elasticsearch
- Experience with Java / Scala / Spark and operating on data at the petabyte scale
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across team boundaries and provide guidance to individual teams
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a track record of collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering leaders and teams
What the job involves
- The App Foundation team, part of the Users, Listings and Platforms org, is at the forefront of building world-class comprehensive application frameworks, services and platforms to easily transform and serve data to the application stack
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated product engineering leader who is passionate about making a difference through their work. We are on a journey to build company-wide large-scale, high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems that power Airbnb's Guest and Host products, and machine learning models
- As a technical leader in this space, you will have the opportunity to shape the technical and product directions for your direct team and the broader org
- Drive the development of batch and streaming data processing systems
- Work at the intersection of online and offline data, storage layers, and stream processing to create innovative solutions
- Contribute to and work with open-source software, making an impact on the industry
- Lead the execution of our next-generation architecture redesign initiatives
- Evangelize high-quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale
- Work with partners across orgs (client, backend, ML, and analytics teams) to design and deliver high-quality systems
- Create paved paths and best practices for data processing systems and drive alignment and adoption across the company
- Lead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for serving data pipelines that power product engineers across Airbnb to be productive and create delightful user experiences
- Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
- Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
- Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable
- Mentor engineers both within and outside the team
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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