Staff Database Engineer

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb storage team’s mission is to provide reliable, secure, performant data storage solutions to our customers to help achieve Airbnb’s mission. Storage team’s responsible for building, managing, and operating mission critical data storage solutions whether it’s transactional, NoSQL, KV, document, caching store. 

As a member of this team you would be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies to help support Airbnb’s business. You will be the resident expert on data storage solutions to provide guidance to our teams on the effective use of technologies, their usage in large scale architecture and performance optimization.  

The Difference You Will Make:

• Operate, and support Airbnb database systems currently running on AWS-Aurora
• Partner with teams across the organizations to drive performance, security, scalability, availability, reliability, observability for data stores
• Design, improve, automate, and document processes
• Diagnose and effectively communicate the root cause of database issues
• Apply inspection/debugging techniques to metrics/telemetry, logs, events, and other information sources to diagnose operational issues
• Participate in incident response activities
• Document and present incident postmortems
• Serve on an on-call rotation to address high-priority issues as they arise

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years experience administering production data stores whether relational, NoSQL, or NewSQL
• 9+ years experience in programming and optimizing database code, SQL or otherwise
• 9+ years experience designing and/or tuning database schema/structures
• 9+ years experience with a general purpose programming language (for example: Python)

Nice to Haves

• Experience administering AWS-Aurora
• Experience administering NoSQL or NewSQL databases, TiDB, CockroachDB,  YugaByte
• Experience writing software in Python and/or Golang, Rust
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Ansible or Terraform

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.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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 to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application,, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.