# Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $212k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Data Catalog, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Data Governance, Data Quality, Spark, Apache Hive, Trino, Apache Flink, SQL, Java, Python, Scala, Apache Airflow, Prefect
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Staff Software Engineer leading development of data catalog and metadata infrastructure for discovery, governance, lineage, and quality across Airbnb’s data ecosystem. Requires 9+ years of software engineering experience focused on data infrastructure and strong programming and distributed data technology skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and implement data catalog products for data discovery, metadata management, data quality, and data lineage.
- Build metadata infrastructure supporting data governance, including ownership management, data classification, privacy, access control, and retention.
- Build an end-to-end data lineage product spanning online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualizations, and third-party datasets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to catalog and govern datasets and meet business and regulatory requirements.
- Define metadata quality and governance requirements and develop processes to enforce them.
- Design and build metadata integrations across data infrastructure systems.
- Build scalable metadata onboarding tools and integration processes.
- Implement metadata-driven data policies and procedures.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 9+ years of software engineering experience focused on data infrastructure.
- Experience with data storage and distributed processing technologies such as Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, or SQL databases.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.
- Experience with data catalog products, metadata infrastructure, metadata management, metadata integration frameworks, and metadata-driven data management.
- Experience with workflow orchestration solutions such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, or Kubeflow.
- Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks, including data classification, lineage, quality, privacy, and retention.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

## Compensation
- Base salary range: $212,000–$265,000 USD annually.
- May also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

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