# Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring at Airbnb

- Company: Airbnb
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://www.airbnb.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-09
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/8242248?gh_jid=8242248&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbnb-staff-software-engineer-data-authoring/

## 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

Tags: Software Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbnb-staff-software-engineer-data-authoring/