Airbnb · 2 days ago
Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$204K/yr - $255K/yr
9+ years expAirbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to enhance tools for hosts. This role focuses on driving technical strategy and delivering advanced systems for machine learning model predictions and user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions.
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Responsibilities
Design and manage end-to-end data workflows to support the ML engineering lifecycle, focusing on preparing data for model training, tracking data lineage, evolving schemas to adapt to changing needs, and ensuring data integrity and reliability in production
Prototype new ideas and influence the serving strategy
Build and optimize real-time serving systems to deliver low-latency, high-throughput APIs for model predictions and personalized recommendations, ensuring reliable and scalable performance in production environments
Collaborate with other product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new Host pricing functionality and surface model recommendations, insights and analytics
Contribute to the development of long-term workflow strategies, roadmaps and ML serving development within the Host Pricing organization
Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance in ML serving and data engineering best practices and support to enhance their skills and performance
Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
Qualification
Required
9+ years of experience with a BS/Masters or 4+ years with a PhD
Experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact models
Experience influencing partners as well as other engineering teams
Strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
Expertise in large-scale distributed data processing frameworks like Presto or Spark
Prior experience with the whole lifecycle of productionalization of ML models, including ETL pipelines for data training, feature generation, model evaluation and real-time serving
Strong problem solver and solid production debugging skills
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits
Company
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
VERSO CapitalJP Morgan ChaseFirstMark
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B
Leadership Team
Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
Recent News
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