Staff Software Engineer, Storage - Careers

Airbnb

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Salary
$204,000–$255,000 / yr
Posted
11 days ago

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This role $230k
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This role pays more than 63% of similar roles. Most pay $180,750–$250,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $215k for comparable roles.

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 82 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $204,000–$255,000 across 52 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Storage - Careers

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As a Senior Engineering Manager on Airbnb’s Ingestion team within the Online Database Infrastructure organization, you will lead and mentor a talented group of developers to deliver cutting-edge data export solutions for near real-time access to change logs and periodic mutation snapshots. Your day-to-day responsibilities include guiding internal product teams in effectively using these platforms, evaluating new technologies to enhance existing architectures, and contributing to the long-term roadmap by making strategic decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability. You will work closely with distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure tools such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, and Zookeeper, ensuring high performance and reliability for mission-critical operations.

Skills

Kubernetes Docker CI/CD AWS Elasticache MySQL Redis Kafka Flink Druid Zookeeper CDC Python PostgreSQL Terraform Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Lead cross-functional projects spanning multiple quarters.
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance data ingestion architecture.
  • Mentor team members and guide their career growth in technical standards.
  • Identify and resolve operational issues proactively for the Ingestion platform.
  • Influence long-term roadmap and strategy for the Online Database Infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 9+ years of experience in relevant industry roles.
  • Proven leadership in mentoring and growing engineering teams.
  • Expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure scaling.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and influence technical strategy.
  • Strong judgment on technical trade-offs for maintainable system design.
  • Experience navigating complex codebases and enabling others to do the same.

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