Remote Staff Distributed Systems Engineer – KV/Ingestion

Traveltechessentialist; United States; On-site; USD 204,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Travel credits

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide the KV Stores & Caching and Ingestion teams within the Online Data org. You will shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and deliver multi‑quarter cross-functional projects that power high‑throughput, low‑latency services.

You will collaborate across teams, drive long‑term roadmap decisions, and stay current with data ingestion and storage innovations while ensuring reliability and maintainability in a remote‑eligible, US‑based

Qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
• Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers to deliver multi‑quarter cross functional projects.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in data ingestion systems and evaluate and incorporate new technologies and methodologies to improve the existing data ingestion architecture/solution.
• Influence the team’s and organization’s long‑term roadmap and strategy.
• Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and technical standards in the team.
• Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues. Be part of the on‑call rotation for the Ingestion team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant storage

Infrastructure design

Leadership & mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Technical decision making

Job description

Airbnb is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide the KV Stores & Caching and Ingestion teams within the Online Data org. You will shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and deliver multi‑quarter cross-functional projects that power high‑throughput, low‑latency services.

You will collaborate across teams, drive long‑term roadmap decisions, and stay current with data ingestion and storage innovations while ensuring reliability and maintainability in a remote‑eligible, US‑based