Airbnb · 2 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$191K/yr - $223K/yr
5+ years expAirbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help build the data strategy and develop data models and tooling to enhance the Airbnb experience, collaborating with various teams to ensure data quality and drive business impact.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources, including user interactions, listing details, and external data feeds
Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy
Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, to define data requirements, and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements
Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues
Qualification
Required
5-9+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS/Masters, or 2+ years with a PhD
Experience with distributed processing technologies and frameworks, such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and distributed storage systems (e.g., HDFS, S3)
Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse)
Excellent written and verbal communication 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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