Staff Software Engineer, Remote — Data Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide the Online Data ingestion platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping high‑impact, multi‑quarter programs. You will influence architecture decisions across teams, drive long-range strategy, and elevate operational practices while supporting the global Airbnb data ecosystem.

Leading a cross-functional team, you will champion scalable, reliable data export solutions and stay current with advances in distributed data systems, ensuring alignment

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 oncall rotation for the Ingestion team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant storage

Leadership

Mentoring

Technical strategy

Cross-team collaboration

Architecting high-performance systems

On-call rotation

Codebase navigation

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Flink

Druid

Zookeeper

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide the Online Data ingestion platforms, mentoring engineers and shaping high‑impact, multi‑quarter programs. You will influence architecture decisions across teams, drive long-range strategy, and elevate operational practices while supporting the global Airbnb data ecosystem.

Leading a cross-functional team, you will champion scalable, reliable data export solutions and stay current with advances in distributed data systems, ensuring alignment