Staff Software Engineer, Communication & Connectivity

Responsibilities

• Shape the team’s long-term vision and roadmap in close collaboration with cross-functional partners across Airbnb.
• Build strong relationships with partner engineering teams, including backend, client, data science, analytics, and ML, to drive aligned and impactful outcomes.
• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines - both batch and real-time - that collect, process, and serve data from diverse sources across Airbnb.
• Implement robust offline and online feature building processes to enable faster production of ML products.
• Architect and build ML infra and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, while also contributing to and influencing the broader data engineering community at Airbnb.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 6+ years of experience with a PhD.
• Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns.
• Experience running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink.
• Experience collaborating with client, backend, ML, analytics teams, product and business partners.
• Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams.
• Experience working on/with end-to-end Machine Learning products.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice-to-Haves

• Passion for being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact.
• Experience with GenAI and large language models (LLMs).