Airbnb · 10 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure Service
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. The role involves working with the Unified Data System team to build and operate a reliable and scalable data storage infrastructure, focusing on data access, schematization, and ingestion systems.
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Responsibilities
Build and operate a data access gateway that provides a simple and unified experience for accessing and managing online product data, while all aspects of the implementation complexity such as storage, indices, data placement, replication, security and data lifecycle management would be abstracted away from the product developers
Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb. The end-to-end solution covers object relation model (ORM), schema definition, schema life-cycle management, and runtime schema discovery
Build and operate data ingestion system that enables various ways of accessing data at Airbnb, including ingest DB data in the warehouse in various formats and frequency, and stream change data capture (CDC) at near real time
Qualification
Required
9+ years of relevant industry experience
Hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems
Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base
Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment
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.
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
Silver Lake,Sixth StreetVERSO CapitalCapitalG,TCV
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B
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