Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our Unified Data Store (UDS) team. The UDS team's mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, and global system-of-record storage infrastructure for all Airbnb. As a member of this team, you will be working with top latent engineers on a modern distributed database system. You will be the technological expert on data storage systems, high performance infrastructure service APIs, as well as provide guidance to Airbnb product teams on the effective use of technologies in large scale systems and performance optimization.

The main responsibilities of this role include:

• Building and operating a highly performant, available, and scalable data access gateway that provides a simple and unified experience for accessing online product data.
• Empowering and simplifying 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 and be able to satisfy broad compliance requirements.

Your expertise should include:

• 12+ 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
• Ability to leverage cutting edge AI technologies to build world-class solutions