Senior Data Engineer, Payments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and sustain robust, scalable data pipelines tailored for AirCover products and operations.

• Create analytics-ready data models and metrics that support executive reporting, claims and operations workflows, experimentation, financial reconciliation, and self-service analysis.

• Collaborate with software engineers and external data stakeholders to convert source-system behavior and partner data feeds into reliable offline datasets.

• Ensure the quality, consistency, accuracy, and documentation of vital AirCover data assets.

• Enhance pipeline reliability, maintainability, and observability through rigorous testing, monitoring, and adherence to engineering standards.

• Work in partnership with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Analytics, and Data Science teams.

• Contribute to the development of Airbnb Data Engineering tools, standards, and best practices.

• Establish foundational data systems that can scale with new AirCover markets, products, and regulatory or partner requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of relevant industry experience in data engineering, software engineering, or closely related fields.

• Extensive experience in designing and maintaining production-quality ETL or ELT pipelines.

• Strong data modeling capabilities for business-relevant analytics and operational use cases.

• Practical experience with Spark and distributed storage systems.

• Proficient in SQL.

• Competence in at least one data-engineering programming language, such as Python, Scala, or Java.

• Familiarity with workflow orchestration or ETL scheduling frameworks, like Airflow.

• Experience handling structured and third-party data sources, including their reconciliation and transformation into reliable warehouse models.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Good judgment regarding data quality, documentation, ownership, and long-term maintainability.

• Must reside in a state where Airbnb, Inc. maintains a registered entity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Eligibility for equity.

• Employee Travel Credits.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Remote work eligibility.

• Occasional work at Airbnb offices or attendance at offsite events, as coordinated with the manager.