Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Data Engineer, you are the technical leader for this team and the person who sets its direction. This is a hands-on role with no direct reports: you will own the long-term data architecture and you will build against it, from the Airflow-orchestrated pipelines that ingest telemetry, logs, and billing data through to the dimensional models and Minerva definitions that thousands of people at Airbnb reason with.
What they're looking for
- Provide technical leadership across the team's data engineering and analytics engineering work, spanning cloud cost, traffic & bots, and infrastructure intelligence
- Define and own the multi-year data strategy and architecture for Airbnb's foundational data assets, and build the cross-org consensus needed to fund and execute it
- Own how Airbnb measures its AI: the unit economics of training and serving our own models, GPU fleet utilization, and the cost and adoption of developer AI tooling
- Design and build the datasets that integrate cost, utilization, performance, and reliability signals across Airbnb's infrastructure fleets, starting from a blank page
- Stay hands-on in the pipelines and models you architect, close enough to the build to catch the problems design reviews miss
- Influence and coach a distributed team of Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers, raising the quality bar through design and code review and scaling it by building the frameworks and automated checks other teams adopt
More about this role
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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.
At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Foundational Data team builds and operates the high-quality, widely reused datasets that power critical decisions across Airbnb: how visitors are measured from site traffic, how bot traffic is separated from organic traffic, and how cloud costs are attributed to Airbnb services. Our cost dashboards are among the most-used at Airbnb, relied on by technical leads, finance, and executives. Every dollar Airbnb spends running its infrastructure is attributed by models this team owns.
We are now building a third pillar, and it puts this team at the forefront of how Airbnb measures AI: the cost, usage, and performance of the models we train and serve ourselves, and of the AI tools our own engineers use every day. When Airbnb asks whether an AI...
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