Staff Data Authoring Platform Engineer (Remote)

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Minerva, its data-authoring platform. You will own high-impact workstreams, talk to users, define scope, and deliver end-to-end solutions, enabling thousands of internal users to trust and consume business metrics across product, finance, BI, and experimentation.

You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and product leaders to advance data tooling, improve experiment speed, and shape how Minerva serves experimentation teams and other

Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose language.
• Experience with data platforms or data tooling.
• Ability to independently scope and drive ambiguous cross-team projects.
• Strong command of OO, API design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong communication across complex team interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend Minerva's core services, including our query rewriting service.
• Take on loosely defined problems, scope with users and teams, and deliver solutions.
• Track semantic layer techniques and database engine capabilities to inform priorities.
• Partner with teams across the company to make data easier to query and use.
• Own design, implementation, testing, and on-call for the systems you build.

Skills

Hands-on coding

Multiple languages

API design

Distributed systems

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Tools

dbt

Tableau

Superset

Data DSLs

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer focused on Minerva, its data-authoring platform. You will own high-impact workstreams, talk to users, define scope, and deliver end-to-end solutions, enabling thousands of internal users to trust and consume business metrics across product, finance, BI, and experimentation.

You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and product leaders to advance data tooling, improve experiment speed, and shape how Minerva serves experimentation teams and other