Senior Software Engineer, Storage

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 Online Data organization gives every engineer at Airbnb the power to build real-time data experiences — through simple, intuitive tools, without needing deep database expertise.

Within Online Data, the Storage Foundation team owns the online serving stores and databases that power Airbnb. We build and operate Airbnb's source-of-truth database: an open-source, distributed NewSQL system running on stateful Kubernetes. It stores critical data — users, listings, and more — and handles over half of all of Airbnb's online OLTP traffic. Our charter: keep this database reliable, secure, scalable, fast, correct, well-tested, and cost-efficient — at Airbnb's scale.

The Community You Will Join

We're hiring two roles within the Database team. Both are described below.

• Database Performance & Reliability: Dig into the internals of a large-scale, multi-tenant, distributed database — storage, query execution, consensus, change data capture, and shard routing and management. You'll root-cause hard performance, reliability, and stability issues, and partner directly with our open-source database vendor to land fixes upstrea