Staff Software Engineer, Data Engineering

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.

The Community You Will Join:

At Airbnb, we need to ensure every area of the business has trustworthy data to fuel insight and innovation. Understanding the business need, securing the right data sources, designing usable data models, and building robust & dependable data pipelines are essential skills to meet this goal. 

We are currently hiring for the following teams:

Communication and Connectivity: This team builds systems and tools for stays, experiences, and beyond that support first class rich communications and connections among all members of the Airbnb community. We create scalable and intelligent communication tools, including messaging and notifications. The data team utilizes industry-leading tools, builds scalable data systems and applies AI models to provide insights and support all products in CnC.

Users, Listings, and Marketplace Data and AI: This team is a group of passionate machine learning, data, and analytics engineers responsible for creating new data products for our Guests and Hosts, Sales, and Finance. You’ll be part of the overall Guest and Host organization that is responsible for the Airbnb web and native apps used by hundreds of millions of our guests and Hosts.

Guest Data: Understanding how guests and hosts use Airbnb allows us to give them the best possible experience. The Guest Data team, part of the Guest & Host organization, is dedicated to developing top-tier tools, frameworks, and data models that offer a data-driven perspective on guest experiences on Airbnb products. Our primary stakeholders include analytics and data science partners, ML engineers, and product and engineering leaders involved in the core booking flow.

Community Support Data Platform: Community Support Platform organization keeps our hosts and guests supported throughout the entire Airbnb experience. The Data team is responsible for providing and governing trustworthy data foundations and metrics for critical data across experimentation, ML, measurement, product, and operational insights. Your work will empower ML and backend engineers, analytics teams, and operations teams while contributing to Airbnb's 10-Star customer service vision and initiatives like Differentiated Services and CSxAI.

Trust & Safety - The Trust and Safety team at Airbnb is at the forefront of creating a secure and trustworthy experience for hosts, guests, and the global community. Leveraging advanced technologies and proactive policies, they develop innovative tools to deter risks, uphold community standards, and safeguard user journeys—ensuring confidence and peace of mind for everyone on the platform.

The Difference You Will Make:

Communication and Connectivity: You will partner with a cross-functional team, including product managers, frontend/backend engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, to influence and build company-wide product releases. You will develop innovative data systems to empower partners in making critical business decisions, enable product engineers to create scalable online systems with optimized user experiences, and collaborate with machine learning engineers to build AI/ML systems. Additionally, you will work with our global sales team to develop business tools that optimize their workflow, making a significant impact on Airbnb's revenue.   

Users, Listings, and Marketplaces are core entities to Airbnb and the quality of the data  fundamental to Airbnb’s product and business. We have been growing our Data Engineering practice in these areas to improve data foundation and better leverage our data and ML models in our product. You will help us define and realize our vision for trustworthy data across the company and our products, shaping Data Engineering for not just the Users, Listings, and Marketplaces team but also across Airbnb. We need to ensure every area of the business and our products has trustworthy data to fuel insight and innovation. Understanding the business and product need, securing the right data sources, designing usable data models, and building robust & dependable data pipelines are essential skills to meet this goal. 

Guest Data: As a Staff Data Engineer, you will help build our data strategy, develop top-tier data models and tooling, and provide technical leadership to a team of senior data engineers. You have the opportunity to influence critical aspects