Your work will involve developing data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization, ensuring data quality, consistency, and accuracy. You'll also develop high-quality data assets for product use-cases by partnering with Product, AI/ML, and Data Science teams.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll contribute to creating standards and best practices for Airbnb's Data Engineering and shape the tools, processes, and standards used by the broader data community. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data requirements and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements.

To succeed in this role, you'll need 6+ years of relevant industry experience, a BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or a relevant technical degree, and hands-on experience in DSA coding, data structure, and algorithm. You'll also need extensive experience designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms and handling data at the petabyte scale.

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Location: United States

Department: Software Engineering

Job Description:

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer to join its Marketplaces Data and AI team. As a key member of this team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-performance data systems that support Airbnb's Guest and Host products.

The Community You Will Join:

Marketplaces Data and AI is a group of passionate machine learning, software, data, and analytics engineers. We are responsible for developing new, cutting-edge AI and data products that leverage Airbnb's massive datasets across Users, Listings, Pricing, and Supply/Demand.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and automate large-scale, high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems to power Airbnb's Guest and Host products, machine learning models, and business insights.
• Partner closely with infra teams to improve scalability, data governance, and efficiency.
• Evangelize high-quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale, collaborate with infrastructure teams to streamline best practices.
• Advocate for high bars for data and engineering quality ensure eng deliverables are reliable, efficient, well-documented, testable, & maintainable.
• Design our data models for optimal storage and understanding, with thoughtful dataflows to power critical product and business requirements.

A Typical Day:

We are in the middle of tremendous growth and transformation in the data domain, with significant investments into intelligent products powered by Machine Learning. We are seeking product-oriented Senior Staff Data Engineers to drive entity models across Users, Listings, and Marketplace and product initiatives across Quality, Merchandising, and Supply growth.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 9+ years of experience with a PhD.
• Experience collaborating with client, backend, ML, analytics teams, product, and business partners.
• Experience designing and deploying high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices.
• Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL).
• Strong expertise with Java/Scala/Spark and operating on data at the petabyte scale.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary range: $244,000-$305,000 USD.
• Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Note: This role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.

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