Staff Analytics Engineer - Users & Contextualization Data & AI

Details

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.

Team overview

The Users and Contextualization Data & AI team, part of the Users, Listing, & Platform Data organization, builds foundational data and systems to give Airbnb teams a deeper understanding of user domains (Guest & Host). The team focuses on creating high-quality, rich, and well-governed user data and insights to enable personalized and context-aware experiences that improve trip quality on and off the Airbnb platform.

Responsibilities

• Identify gaps and opportunities with stakeholders and understand their needs.
• Set the team's roadmap and drive alignment on improving and adopting data quality within the Users domain.
• Design and develop high-quality data assets for internal product and analytics use cases, and for external partners.
• Foster strong collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams including backend/client, data science, analytics, and machine learning.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to enhance product usage measurement through improved logging practices.
• Create robust pipelines, frameworks, tools, and dashboards to efficiently generate insights that meet business, product, and regulatory requirements.
• Translate ambiguous data requirements into clear, efficient, scalable, and impactful deliverables.
• Present in-depth product and technical analyses to key stakeholders and influence strategic direction for data-driven decisions.
• Mentor and review designs and work of engineers on the team, setting a high bar for quality.
• Develop user data entities to deepen understanding of Guest & Host behavior and improve platform personalization.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Science, Data Engineering, or a similar field.
• Expertise in SQL.
• Proficiency in at least one data engineering language such as Python or Scala.
• Expertise creating metrics and evaluating effectiveness of defenses (e.g., rules and ML models using evaluation and experiment data).
• Experience with Tableau and data visualization tools.
• Experience with an ETL framework like Airflow.
• Excellent communication skills with a history of strong collaboration with technical and non-technical partners.
• Expertise with data warehousing and modeling; hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex data issues.

Location & Office Policy

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager. If remote, you must live in a U.S. state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (some states are excluded). Offices: United States.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range: $194,000 — $240,000 USD.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Inclusion & Accessibility

Airbnb is committed to inclusion and belonging and encourages applications from a diverse talent pool. Reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities are available during the application and interview process via [email protected].