Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Graph

Airbnb is a global company that has revolutionized travel by connecting guests with hosts. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Knowledge Graph team to design and scale the data platform that powers critical product experiences through intelligent data connections.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with infra and product teams to deeply understand use case requirements and define the technical vision for the Knowledge Graph
• Design, build, and scale the end-to-end (E2E) Travel Graph infrastructure, prioritizing a robust and easy-to-use platform for all consumers and producers of graph data
• Lead the large-scale data onboarding strategy, focusing on a user-friendly experience for ingesting diverse data sources (1st and 3rd party data, derived signals) via both batch and Near Real-Time (NRT) pipelines
• Ensure seamless, high-performance integration of the Knowledge Graph with a variety of downstream systems, including Search, Machine Learning, and Analytics
• Debug complex production issues and continuously improve system reliability, observability, and performance

Requirements:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters, and 3+ years with a PhD
• Proven success in building and maintaining high-scale distributed systems, particularly in data infrastructure, databases, or streaming platforms
• Hands-on experience with technologies like Kafka, Flink, Spark, or similar for data ingestion and processing
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML techniques to data infrastructure problems
• Strong system design and debugging skills, with a focus on real-world reliability and scalability
• Experience with large language models (e.g., Claude, LLMs) for productivity is a plus