Senior Software Engineer, Data Authoring Platform

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community you will join:

Airbnb’s Data Authoring Platform exists to turn raw data into decision-grade insight — fast, reliable, and at scale. We provide a single, paved path for 4,000+ internal data producers and consumers to model, transform, and serve trustworthy data and metrics that power everything from A/B experimentation to executive dashboards.

What we own

• The end-to-end data-authoring framework that cuts through pipeline boiler-plate and accelerates iteration, pipeline testing, and validation.

• Airbnb’s semantic layer & metrics platform, ensuring one definition of truth across the company.

• Tooling for reliability, governance, and cost-efficiency including automated testing, anomaly detection, and right-sized materialization.

The difference you will make:

As a member of this team you would be working with talented engineers on building infrastructure to solve cutting edge semantic layer and data transformation problems. Our platform provides democratized access to data.

You will make it easier for thousands of internal users to build and consume high quality data models, data pipelines, and business critical metrics to enable tactical and strategic decision making at all levels of Airbnb across product, finance, operations and other areas.

In particular, engineers, designers and other product leaders will leverage the tools you work on to explore and develop new product experiences from ideation to implementation at scale. They will be able to experiment with product concepts and make the correct choice about what is right for our customers.

We believe data is the voice of our customers at scale. The tools you build will help improve the Airbnb product for every guest and host.

A typical day:

• Build and extend the capabilities of our query rewriting service.

• Research the latest semantic layer techniques and database engine features to determine what Minerva’s priorities should be.

• Partner with teams across the company to improve the impact of data, especially by making it easier to query data.

• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.

Your expertise:

• 5+ years in a hands-on software engineering role, shipping high quality code to production.

• Experience with at least one modern, general programming language.

• Experience at the boundary between data engineering and software engineering.

• Experience with a data platform with multiple abstraction or semantic layers.

• A deep understanding of OOP and API design patterns.

• Experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces.

• Strong communication skills and a track record of leading projects across teams.

• [Bonus points] Proficiency authoring DSLs or APIs that abstract data transformations (e.g., dbt, Airflow Providers, custom compilers)

• [Bonus points] Experience with data warehouse technologies

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range
$196,000—$230,000 USD