Senior Software Engineer, Storage

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 storage system that stores all the critical Airbnb user, listing and financial data.

With over 150 million Airbnb users and hosts around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency, security and world class user experience are our team’s core tenets. As a member of this team you will be working with top engineering on a modern distributed database system. You will be the technological expert on data storage systems, high performance infrastructure service APIs, and provide guidance to Airbnb product teams on the effective use of technologies in large scale systems and performance optimization.

• Build and operate a highly performant, available, and scalable data access gateway that provides a simple and unified experience for accessing online product data, while all aspects of the implementation complexity such as storage, indices, data placement, replication, security and data lifecycle management are abstracted away from product developers.

• 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 and satisfying broad compliance requirements. The end‑to‑end solution covers object relation model (ORM), schema definition, schema life‑cycle management, and runtime schema discovery.

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience
• Hands‑on experience in building and operating large‑scale distributed systems
• Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
• Ability to own and dive deeply into a complex code base
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote‑working environment
• Ability to leverage cutting‑edge AI technologies to build world‑class solutions

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. While Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Please see the up‑to‑date list of excluded states, which is continuously evolving.

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively‑led people and develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

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Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay depends on many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range: $244,000 – $305,000 USD