Airbnb · 4 days ago
Software Engineer, KV Stores & Caching
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$157K/yr - $185K/yr
3+ years expAirbnb is a global hospitality company that has revolutionized the way people travel and experience new cultures. The KV Stores & Caching team is responsible for the critical infrastructure that powers Airbnb's online serving storage systems, focusing on building and scaling distributed systems to support various teams within the organization.
HospitalityMarketplaceMobile AppsPropTechTravelTravel Accommodations
Responsibilities
Implementing features to evolve our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases
Improving caching solutions used across Airbnb
Implementing observability features that help teams debug latency issues across the caching stack
Developing tooling to safely perform rolling upgrades across hundreds of cache clusters
Profiling and optimizing hot paths in our KV client libraries to reduce P99 latency
Qualification
Required
3+ years of relevant industry experience
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and a desire to deepen your expertise in this area
Ability to write clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code
Experience onboarding to and contributing to a complex codebase
Enthusiasm for learning and growing your skills in infrastructure engineering
Preferred
Exposure to distributed caching systems, KV stores, or similar infrastructure is a plus
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
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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
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