Staff Software Engineer, KV Stores & Caching

The Community You Will Join:

The KV Stores & Caching team within Airbnb’s Online Data org owns and operates critical pieces of Airbnb's online serving storage systems. Specifically, the team owns and is responsible for:

• A highly available, low-latency, distributed, multi-tenant K/V store for Airbnb. This platform is used by user profiling, Search, ML, and pricing teams, supporting millions of read QPS and providing 99.9+% availability across thousands of customer tables.
• A set of control planes and clients that manage ElasticCache clusters for hundreds of Airbnb production clusters at million+ IOPS and million+ indexing QPS.
• A scalable, reliable, performant distributed coordination service supporting many mission-critical systems (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, Zookeeper, etc).

The Difference You Will Make:

We’re looking for a Staff or Senior Software Engineer who is hands-on and capable of solving broad technical challenges. Some examples of what we work on are:

• Adding advanced hotkey caching in front of our KV store to handle DDoS and skewed read/write scenarios without engineering intervention
• Designing and implementing caching solutions for all of Airbnb
• Rearchitecting our KV write path to remove big chunks of infrastructure while improving our replication lag
• Building frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Demonstrated strong collaboration and communication skills while working across teams and organizations, ideally in a remote environment.
• Distributed systems and infrastructure fundamentals - you’ve built high scale, high performance, business critical software before and supported it oncall.
• A knack for writing clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code. We care more about quality than we do about what languages you’ve used.
• Experience onboarding to and contributing to a broad and complex code base.
• You have an eye for engineering best practices and know how to guide a team towards them through leadership and mentorship.
• Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed caching systems and/or KV stores is a strong plus.
• Experience building on top of AWS is a plus.

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re 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.

Offices: United States