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Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring

Airbnb · USA · On-site

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About Airbnb

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 Staff Software Engineer focused on Minerva, you will own and drive high-impact workstreams end to end. You'll take ambiguous problem spaces, such as making experimentation faster and easier, talk to users, define the work, and deliver it. Your work will help thousands of internal users define, understand, and consume trustworthy business metrics across product, finance, BI, and experimentation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Minerva, Airbnb's semantic layer & metrics platform , ensuring one definition of truth across the company
  • The end-to-end data-authoring framework that cuts through pipeline boilerplate and accelerates iteration, pipeline testing, and validation
  • Tooling for reliability, governance, and cost-efficiency, including automated testing, anomaly detection, and right-sized materialization
  • Build and extend Minerva's core services, including our query rewriting service
  • Take on loosely defined problems, partner with users and teams to scope them, and propose and deliver solutions
  • Track semantic layer techniques and database engine capabilities to inform priorities
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.

Airbnb's Data Authoring Platform exists to turn raw data into decision-grade insight, fast, reliable, and at scale. We provide a single, paved path for 4,000+ internal data producers and consumers to model, transform, and serve trustworthy data and metrics that power everything from A/B experimentation to executive dashboards.

  • Minerva, Airbnb's semantic layer & metrics platform , ensuring one definition of truth across the company.
  • The end-to-end data-authoring framework that cuts through pipeline boilerplate and accelerates iteration, pipeline testing, and validation.
  • Tooling for reliability, governance, and cost-efficiency, including automated testing, anomaly detection, and right-sized materialization.

As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Minerva, you will own and drive high-impact workstreams end to end. You'll...

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