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 a Staff Data Engineer to help us define and realize our vision for trustworthy Marketplaces data including pricing, and availability data across the company and our products. 

We need to ensure every area of the business and our products has trustworthy marketplaces 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 a Staff Data Engineer to own critical data assets for Marketplaces, and Competitive Intelligence. You will be operating with a high level of autonomy, collaborating directly with product, business partners, and peer engineering teams to align on data and reporting requirements. 

• Architect and productionize batch and real-time data systems to power products for Airbnb Guests and Hosts, or our business/sales teams
• Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems with thoughtful quality systems and monitoring
• Tune, productionize, and optimize data systems powering Airbnb products
• Design long-term marketplaces data models for optimal storage and retrieval and to meet critical product and business requirements
• Collaborate with product …