Airbnb · 3 days ago
Staff Software Engineer, Communication & Connectivity
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$204K/yr - $255K/yr
9+ years expAirbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. The Staff Software Engineer role focuses on designing and building large-scale data systems that power machine learning models and enhance the Airbnb experience through effective communication and connectivity solutions.
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Responsibilities
Shape the team’s long-term vision and roadmap in close collaboration with cross-functional partners across Airbnb
Build strong relationships with partner engineering teams, including backend, client, data science, analytics, and ML, to drive aligned and impactful outcomes
Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines - both batch and real-time - that collect, process, and serve data from diverse sources across Airbnb
Implement robust offline and online feature building processes to enable faster production of ML products
Architect and build ML infra and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
Mentor and develop engineers on the team, while also contributing to and influencing the broader data engineering community at Airbnb
Qualification
Required
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
Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns
You're passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
You have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink
Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams
Experience working on/with end-to-end Machine Learning products
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
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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2025 (234)
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2023 (160)
2022 (270)
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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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