Senior Software Engineer - Unified Data Store

The Community You Will Join:

UDS (Unified Data Store) team’s mission is to provide a reliable, scalable, and global system-of-record storage infrastructure for all Airbnb. The team is responsible for building and operating the paved path storage system for OLTP data, including all the critical data for Airbnb user, listing, booking and payment.

With over 150 million Airbnb users and hosts around the world, reliability, scalability, security and world class user experience are our team’s core tenets. As a member of this team you would be working with experienced engineers on a modern distributed storage system. You will be the technological expert on data storage systems, high performance infrastructure service APIs, as well as provide guidance to Airbnb product teams on building world class products leveraging the infrastructure service you help build. 

The Difference You Will Make:

We’re looking to add Senior engineers who are hands-on and capable of solving broad technical challenges in the following areas:

ORM (Object-Relation Mapping) Service

• Build and operate an ORM service that provides a flexible and easy to use experience for storing and accessing system-of-record product data, while all aspects of the implementation complexity such as storage, indices, data placement, replication, security and lifecycle management would be abstracted away for the product developers. 

Schema Management Platform

• Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb. The end-to-end solution covers data modeling, schema definition, schema life-cycle management, and runtime schema discovery.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience

• Hands-on experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems

• Good understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals

• Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base

• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code

• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.