Airbnb
Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring
USA · Staff+
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About the role
- Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.
- Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
- We provide a single, paved path for 4,000+ internal data producers and consumers to model, transform, and serve trustworthy data and metrics that power everything from A/B experimentation to executive dashboards.
Responsibilities
- Build and extend Minerva's core services, including our query rewriting service.
- Take on loosely defined problems, partner with users and teams to scope them, and propose and deliver solutions.
- Partner with teams across the company to make data easier to query and use.
- Own design, implementation, testing, and on-call for the systems you build.
- 9+ years of hands-on software engineering, with the majority of your time spent building and deploying production applications and services (rather than writing configuration and SQL).
- Demonstrated ability to independently scope and drive ambiguous, cross-team projects from design through launch.
- Strong command of OOP, API design, and distributed systems patterns.
Requirements
- Deep proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, TypeScript).
- Experience with experimentation platforms (assignment, metrics, analysis, or experiment tooling).
- Experience with metrics, semantic layer, BI, or analytics platforms (e.g., dbt, Tableau, Superset).
- Experience with query engines, query rewriting/optimization, or data warehouse internals.
Compensation
- $212,000 - $265,000 USD
- We'll also never ask you to pay a fee, send money, deposit or cash a check, or purchase work-related equipment (such as a company laptop) during the interview process.
Company info
- We believe data is the voice of our customers at scale.
- We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.
- Pay Range $212,000 - $265,000 USD Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
Equal opportunity
- Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
- All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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