Staff Software Engineer, Communication & Connectivity

We connect Airbnb's community with the right information, in the right place, at the right time. As a Staff Software Engineer in the Communication and Connectivity (CnC) organization, you will lead key initiatives to design and build large-scale, distributed data systems - both batch and real-time processing. These systems will power machine learning models and unlock new product features.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the team's long-term vision and roadmap in close collaboration with cross-functional partners across Airbnb
• Build strong relationships with partner engineering teams to drive aligned and impactful outcomes
• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines - both batch and real-time - that collect, process, and serve data from diverse sources across Airbnb
• Implement robust offline and online feature building processes to enable faster production of ML products
• Architect and build ML infra and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, while also contributing to and influencing the broader data engineering community at Airbnb

Requirements:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 6+ years of experience with a PhD
• Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns
• Experience running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink
• Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
• Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams
• Experience working on/with end-to-end Machine Learning products
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal