Senior Software Engineer, Storage

The Community You Will Join:

The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts.

We’re hiring across multiple teams within our organization. Explore the section below to learn more about each team and the opportunities available.

• The Transactional Storage Services team sits within Airbnb’s Online Data organization that owns all of Airbnb's online serving stores and databases. The group is responsible for designing, building and operating a new source-of-truth, open-source NewSql database running on top of stateful Kubernetes that hosts all the critical Airbnb user, listing and financial data, with all the essential DB capabilities on such as backup restore, CDC, multi-tenancy. 


• The mission of the DBExports team in the Online Database Infrastructure org is to provide a managed, reliable, performant and scalable platform for exporting data out of Airbnb’s online databases for offline processing. The team currently builds and operates two managed solutions - one for near real time access to change logs (CDC) and another to provide periodic mutation and full table snapshots.


• The UDS (Unified Data Store) team within Airbnb's Online Data org owns and operates the platform that stores critical user, listing, and financial data for more than 150 million users and hosts worldwide. As a member of this team, you will serve as a technical expert in transactional databases and high-performance infrastructure service. You will also collaborate with product teams to drive the effective use of the service, focusing on performance optimization, reliability, and scalability.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be hands-on (code, design, test) and collaborate with cross team partners (internal customers, dependencies and leadership) to deliver on multi-month projects in a timely fashion.


• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.


• Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb and be able to satisfy broad compliance requirements.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large scale core backend distributed systems like storage, data ingestion, backup and restore, streaming.


• Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base.


• Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems


• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.


• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.


• Demonstrate strong ownership and consistently deliver in a timely manner.

Your Location:

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. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.