Software Engineer, Storage

Airbnb

Software Engineer at Airbnb responsible for building and operating data ingestion systems for online databases. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance data access and reliability.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $157,000 - $185,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and operate data ingestion system that enables various ways of accessing data at Airbnb, including ingest DB data in the warehouse in various formats and frequency, and stream change data capture (CDC) at near real time.
Be hands-on (code, design, test) and collaborate with cross team partners (internal customers, dependencies and leadership) to deliver on multi-month projects in a timely fashion.
Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues. Be part of the oncall rotation for the DBExports platform.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of relevant industry experience.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams.
Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and a desire to deepen your expertise in this area.
Ability to write clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code.
Experience onboarding to and contributing to a complex codebase.
Enthusiasm for learning and growing your skills in infrastructure engineering.
Exposure to distributed caching systems, KV stores, or similar infrastructure is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data ingestionchange data capturedistributed systemsclean codereadable codetestable codemaintainable codeinfrastructure engineeringdistributed caching systemsKV stores

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdebuggingproactive identificationteamworkleadershipadaptabilityenthusiasm for learningcross-team collaboration