Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Ingestion

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Employee Travel Credits

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an experienced engineering leader for the Online Data organization, focusing on the KV Stores & Caching and Ingestion teams. You will guide cross-functional engineers to deliver high-performance, scalable data infrastructure that supports profiling, search, and analytics.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape long-term technical direction, and own multi-quarter projects while staying current with data ingestion innovations. Remote-friendly role across the US.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and multi-tenant storage.
• Ability to influence technical strategy across teams.
• Experience with scalable, high-performance data platforms.
• Comfort mentoring others and growing engineers' careers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers to deliver multi-quarter cross-functional projects.
• Stay up-to-date with data ingestion systems and adopt new technologies.
• Influence long-term roadmap and technical strategy for the ingestion platform.
• Mentor and coach team members to raise technical standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

On-call rotation

Codebase navigation

Job description

Airbnb is seeking an experienced engineering leader for the Online Data organization, focusing on the KV Stores & Caching and Ingestion teams. You will guide cross-functional engineers to deliver high-performance, scalable data infrastructure that supports profiling, search, and analytics.

You’ll mentor engineers, shape long-term technical direction, and own multi-quarter projects while staying current with data ingestion innovations. Remote-friendly role across the US.