Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring

Details

Airbnb's Data Authoring Platform turns raw data into decision-grade insight at scale. The platform serves more than 4,000 internal data producers and consumers by helping them model, transform, and serve trustworthy data and metrics for A/B experimentation, executive dashboards, product, finance, and business intelligence.

The team owns Minerva, Airbnb's semantic layer and metrics platform; an end-to-end data-authoring framework; and tooling for reliability, governance, cost-efficiency, automated testing, anomaly detection, and right-sized materialization.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend Minerva's core services, including the query rewriting service.
• Own and drive high-impact workstreams from definition through delivery.
• Take on loosely defined problems, partner with users and teams to scope them, and propose and deliver solutions.
• Track semantic layer techniques and database engine capabilities to inform priorities.
• Partner with teams across Airbnb to make data easier to query and use.
• Own the design, implementation, testing, and on-call support for the systems you build.
• Help internal users define, understand, and consume trustworthy business metrics.
• Depending on your background, partner closely with the experimentation team to identify gaps and shape how Minerva serves experimentation users.

Requirements

• 9+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with most of that time spent building and deploying production applications and services rather than writing configuration and SQL.
• Deep proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose programming language, such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Experience working on data platforms or data tooling, with a good understanding of how users work with data.
• Demonstrated ability to independently scope and drive ambiguous, cross-team projects from design through launch.
• Strong command of object-oriented programming, API design, and distributed systems patterns.
• Strong communication skills and experience working across complex team and system interfaces.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with experimentation platforms, including assignment, metrics, analysis, or experiment tooling.
• Experience with metrics, semantic layer, business intelligence, or analytics platforms such as dbt, Tableau, or Superset.
• Experience with query engines, query rewriting or optimization, or data warehouse internals.
• Experience authoring domain-specific languages, compilers, or APIs that abstract data transformations.
• Prior data engineering or data science experience.

Location and Work Policy

This position is remote eligible in the United States. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager. Candidates must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Compensation

The base pay range is $212,000–$265,000 USD. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Airbnb is committed to inclusion and belonging, equal employment opportunity, and providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.