Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead - KV Stores & Caching jobs in United States
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Airbnb · 11 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead - KV Stores & Caching

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityLead/Staff
money$204K/yr - $255K/yr
date10+ years exp

Airbnb is a leading hospitality company that connects hosts and guests around the world. They are seeking a Technical Lead for their KV Stores & Caching team, responsible for driving the technical vision and execution of critical online storage systems while mentoring engineers and shaping architectural decisions.

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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

Qualification

Distributed systemsMulti-tenant storageTechnical leadershipHigh-performance systemsTechnical strategyMentoring engineersJudgment on trade-offsOnboarding to codebaseCollaboration skills

Required

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

Benefits

Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits

Company

Airbnb

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Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.
dateFounded in 2008
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size5001-10000 employees
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https://www.airbnb.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$6.44B
Key Investors
VERSO CapitalJP Morgan ChaseFirstMark
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B

Leadership Team

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Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
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Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
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