Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead - KV Stores & Caching

Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. The Technical Lead for the KV Stores & Caching team will drive the technical vision and execution for critical online serving storage systems, mentoring engineers and shaping architectural decisions to deliver high-impact solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Defining the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure at Airbnb
• Evolving our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases, expanding the platform's capabilities and customer base
• Building a multi-tenant caching solution for Airbnb
• Guiding the rearchitecture of our KV write path to remove infrastructure complexity while improving replication lag
• Overseeing frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms

Requirements:

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy
• Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability
• Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same