Senior Staff Data Engineer, Guest & Host Products

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

Users, Listings and Marketplaces Data and AI 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.

The Difference You Will Make:

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. We are seeking  Senior Staff Data Engineers to help us define and realize our vision for trustworthy data across the company and our products. This is a unique opportunity to shape 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.

A Typical Day:

We are in the middle of tremendous growth and transformation in the data domain, with significant investments into smarter products powered by Machine Learning. We are seeking product oriented Senior Staff Data Engineers to drive both entity models across Users, Listings, and Marketplace and product initiatives across Quality, Merchandising, and Host Growth/Success.

• Develop and automate large scale, high-performance batch and streaming data processing systems to power Airbnb’s Guest and Host products, machine learning models, and business insights.
• Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards building data infrastructure and pipelines at scale, collaborate with infrastructure teams to streamline best practices. 
• Set a high bar for data and engineering quality ensure eng deliverables are reliable, efficient, well documented, testable, & …