Senior Software Engineer, Analytics Infrastructure

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an experienced backend/fullstack engineer to contribute to analytics infrastructure and data products used by thousands of users. You will help build AI-powered data tools and ensure reliable, scalable platform integrations across the Data Platform tooling stack.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a strong focus on data quality, observability and user-centric design. Expect a hybrid work setup with stakeholders globally.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-time, relevant industry experience.
• Hands-on experience with data (SQL, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering).
• Passion for building interactive user experiences and engaging with users.
• High quality code and robust systems (observability, reliability).
• Experience with building AI agents; context engineering is a plus.
• Frontend development expertise (HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript; React a plus).
• Experience with big data technologies (Airflow, Spark, Trino) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build features to support user workflows in data products (Superset, AI agent for Data, Notebooks).
• Collaborate with data platform teams to integrate data tools within Airbnb’s ecosystem.
• Drive end-to-end projects with users, gather feedback and manage rollout plans.
• Maintain high technical quality, improve architecture, testing and observability.
• Provide lightweight on-call support as part of team operations.

Skills

Backend / Fullstack

SQL / Data Eng

Frontend (HTML/CSS/TS/React)

AI agents / context eng

Observability & reliability

Big data tech (Airflow Spark Trino)

Job description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

• The Analytics Infrastructure team’s mission is to enable universal data-informed decision‑making at Airbnb. We achieve this by providing an integrated suite of analytics frameworks, services and applications. We’re infrastructure and full stack engineers with a human focus: customer‑centric, quality driven, helpful and empathetic.
• As a backend / fullstack software engineer on the Analytics Products team (which is part of Analytics Infrastructure) you will have the opportunity to build data tools which enable data practitioners to efficiently explore and analyze data to create insights. The team manages data products used by 7,000 monthly active users, including our in‑house build AI for Data product, BI product (Apache Superset) and Notebooks and their integrations within the Data Platform tooling, like Airbnb’s in‑house build Metric system which enables metric consistency at scale.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Shape up the future of AI powered Data Analytics at Airbnb. By working on improvements to our AI agent for Data, researching industry best practices and AI advancements, you will get to shape up and drive how our internal users get value from data.
• Collaborate with other data platform teams to build integrations of our data tools with Airbnb's data platform’s ecosystem, like the metric infrastructure which enables metric consistency at scale, data management platform which enables data discovery and data management, data warehouse infrastructure and services, and more.
• Continue to hold high quality bar for our data tools, to ensure high stability and reliability for Airbnb’s data practitioners.

A Typical Day:

• Build new features to support user’s workflows within our data products (Superset, AI agent for Data, Notebooks)

• Collaborate with teams within Airbnb’s data platform on integrations of our data products within the data platform’s infrastructure.

• Engage with users of our products - we expect all engineers to be able to drive projects end to end, gather user feedback or collaborate with product managers, create and manage feature roll out plans and migrations.

• Contribute to maintaining a high technical quality bar by identifying quality or architecture improvements projects, improving testability, observability, and reviewing other’s code and technical designs.

• Support users and the team’s operations via lightweight on‑call support.

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of full‑time, relevant industry experience, with expertise in building backend or fullstack applications
• Hands‑on experience with data (SQL, Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering) or internal data applications development
• Passion for building interactive and delightful user experiences and engaging with users.
• Appetite for high quality code and robust systems, including observability, reliability.
• Experience with building AI agents, context engineering, AI harness is a plus.
• Expertise with frontend development - HTML, CSS, Typescript, Javascript and modern front‑end frameworks such as React is a plus.
• Experience in big data technologies e.g: Airflow, Spark, Trino, etc. is a plus.

Ability to drive cross functional projects including alignment, collaboration and roll out with partner teams and users.

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.

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.