Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership and lead high-impact Minerva workstreams from start to finish.

• Enhance the speed and ease of experimentation by pinpointing gaps and developing platform capabilities.

• Develop and expand Minerva’s essential services, including the query rewriting service.

• Define and clarify ambiguous issues with users and teams, propose actionable solutions, and implement them.

• Monitor semantic-layer techniques and database engine functionalities to guide priorities.

• Collaborate with various teams across Airbnb to simplify data querying and usage.

• Oversee the design, implementation, testing, and on-call responsibilities for developed systems.

• Assist internal users in defining, comprehending, and utilizing reliable business metrics across product, finance, BI, and experimentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 9 years of practical software engineering experience, primarily in building and deploying production applications and services.

• Strong proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose programming language, such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, or TypeScript.

• Experience in working with data platforms or data tooling.

• Insight into users’ data requirements.

• Capability to independently define and drive ambiguous, cross-team projects from design through to launch.

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, API design, and distributed systems patterns.

• Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating across complex team and system interfaces.

• Familiarity with experimentation platforms, metrics or semantic-layer platforms, query engines, DSLs, compilers, or data transformation APIs is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Eligibility for equity.

• Eligibility for benefits.

• Employee Travel Credits.

• Eligibility for remote work.

• Occasional work at an Airbnb office or participation in offsites, as agreed upon with the manager.

• Reasonable accommodations available during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.