Staff Data Engineer - Data AI-Listings & Structured Data

Airbnb is a global leader in hospitality and travel, connecting millions of hosts and guests. The Staff Data Engineer will be responsible for architecting and productionizing data systems that enhance the quality of listings and improve the overall product experience for users.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and productionize batch and real-time data systems to power products for Airbnb Guests and Hosts, or our business/sales teams
• Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems with thoughtful quality systems and monitoring
• Tune, productionize, and optimize data systems powering Airbnb products
• Collaborate with product teams to extract data requirements from product specs to develop scalable and flexible systems
• Collaborate and build relationships with partner engineering including backend/client, data science, analytics, and ML

Requirements:

• 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
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal