Staff Software Engineer, Communication & Connectivity
Staff Software Engineer leading design and development of large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines and ML infrastructure to power GenAI/LLM products and features for Airbnb's Messaging, Notifications, and Connectivity organization. Requires 9+ years experience building production ML systems and cross-functional collaboration.
About the job
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).
Skills
Spark, Flink, Machine Learning, Data Pipelines, ML Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Data Architecture
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