Staff Software Engineer, Unified Data Store
AirbnbShort-term Rentals company
BrazilLead
Sequoia Capital
Greylock Partners
Andreessen Horowitz
Founders Fund
Y Combinator
Silver Lake
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Staff Software Engineer to build and scale Airbnb's Unified Data Store infrastructure.
- •Join the Unified Data Store (UDS) team at Airbnb as a Staff Software Engineer.
- •You will build a modern distributed infrastructure service that powers every user profile, listing, reservation, and financial transaction on the platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Define Technical Strategy: Lead the multi-year roadmap and long-term architecture for the UDS client stack.
- •Architect for Scale: Design and operate a high-performance data access layer that abstracts complexities like indexing, replication, and global consistency models.
- •Drive Engineering Excellence: Lead deep-dive design reviews and establish best practices for building fault-tolerant distributed systems across the organization.
- •Requirements Experience: 9+ years of relevant industry experience, with a proven track record of operating at a Senior or Staff level in a high-growth environment.
- •Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including storage internals, networking, and consistency models.
- •Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, and mentor senior talent.
Required skills
MicroservicesKubernetesCI/CDTechnical LeadershipMentoring
Domain expertise
travel
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptJavaGoSQLBashReactNode.jsMicroservicesPostgreSQLMySQLRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDHelmGitLab CICircleCIAnsibleChefPuppet