Senior Staff Data Engineer, Marketplaces DNA

Airbnb is a leading company in the hospitality industry, known for connecting hosts and guests globally. They are seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to own critical data related to Users and Listings, and to help develop scalable data architectures and machine learning models that enhance Airbnb's products.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and automate large scale, high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems to power Airbnb’s Guest and Host products, machine learning models, and business insights
• Partner closely with infra teams to improve scalability, data governance, and efficiency
• Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale, collaborate with infrastructure teams to streamline best practices
• Advocate for high bar for data and engineering quality ensure eng deliverables are reliable, efficient, well documented, testable, & maintainable
• Design our data models for optimal storage and understanding, with thoughtful dataflows to power critical product and business requirements

Requirements:

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 9+ 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
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal