Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog

We are seeking a talented Staff Software Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure organization and lead our efforts in building Data Catalog infrastructure products across Airbnb's Data Ecosystem.

In this role, you will work with cross-functional teams to develop and build infrastructure, tooling, standards, and processes to ensure all data assets at Airbnb are cataloged, discoverable, and governed.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement data catalog products to support Airbnb data users on data discovery, metadata management, data quality, and data lineage.
• Develop and implement metadata infrastructure to support data governance and processes, including ownership management, data classification, data privacy, access control, and data retention.
• Build industry-leading end-to-end data lineage products across online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualizations, and third-party datasets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure all datasets at Airbnb are cataloged, governed, and meeting business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct programs to define and ensure metadata quality and metadata governance requirements.
• Work with various data infrastructure framework teams to identify, design, and build metadata integrations to provide data catalog products for each data system.
• Build infrastructure tooling and processes for scalable metadata onboarding and integrations.
• Develop and implement metadata-driven data policies and procedures to support data governance requirements.

Requirements:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 9+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on data infrastructure.
• Experience working with data storage and distributed processing technologies, such as Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, or SQL databases.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of the following languages: Java, Python, or Scala.
• Experience with data catalog products – metadata infrastructure, metadata management, metadata integration framework, and tooling, metadata-driven data management.
• Experience with workflow orchestration solutions (e.g., Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow).
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks, policies, and processes, including data classification, data lineage, data quality, data privacy, and retention.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build empathetic tools and platforms.
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

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.

The base pay range for this role is $212,000-$265,000 USD.