Staff Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure
Posted 2025-04-06Airbnb 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
Airbnb storage teamÂs mission is to provide reliable, secure, performant data storage solutions to our customers to help achieve AirbnbÂs mission. Storage teamÂs responsible for building, managing, and operating mission critical data storage solutions whether itÂs 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 AirbnbÂs 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 relational databases.
 Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around relational databases, including schema management, monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, and more.
 Design, automate, and document database operations.
 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
 5+ years of relevant industry experience
 Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals
 Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems
 Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
 Experience writing software in scripting languages like Python or Ruby
 Experience in Java, Go, C++, or Rust
Nice to Haves
 Experience with AWS Aurora MySQL, Community MySQL, or MariaDB
 Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, Experience with NoSQL or NewSQL databases, TiDB
 Experience with database schema design and query performance profiling
 Experience with AWS and/or GCP
 Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and 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 youÂre 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.
How We'll Take Care Of You
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon 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
$204,000Â$254,000 USD
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