[Hiring] Software Engineer, Analytics Infrastructure @Airbnb

Role Description

As a backend / fullstack software engineer on the Analytics Products team (which is part of Analytics Infrastructure) you will have the opportunity to build data tools which enable data practitioners to efficiently explore and analyze data to create insights. The team manages data products used by 7,000 monthly active users, including:

• Apache Superset
• Notebook tool
• AI for Data chat product

and their integrations within the Data Platform tooling, like Airbnb’s in-house built Metric system which enables metric consistency at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-time, relevant industry experience, with expertise in building backend services in Python.
• Expertise with frontend development - HTML, CSS, Typescript, Javascript and modern front-end frameworks such as React is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with data (SQL, Data Engineering) or big data technology is a plus, e.g: Airflow, Spark, Trino, etc.
• Experience in some combination of internal application development, data infrastructure, and analytics engineering is a plus.
• Appetite for high quality code and robust systems, including observability, and reliability.
• Ability to drive cross functional projects or migrations - including alignment, collaboration and roll out with partner teams and users.
• Passion for building interactive and delightful user experiences and engaging with users.

Requirements

• Shape up the future of Apache Superset through open source collaboration, internal user engagement and direct code contributions.
• Collaborate with other data platform teams to build integrations of our data tools with Airbnb's data platform’s ecosystem.
• Continue to hold high quality bar for our data tools, to ensure high stability and reliability for Airbnb’s data practitioners.
• Build new features to support user’s workflows, within our data products (Superset, AI for Data Chat, Notebooks) and integrations of our tools within the Data Platform’s ecosystem.
• Collaborate with Apache Superset open source community and make contributions to the Apache Superset project.
• Prepare, test and release Superset OSS official releases internally for Airbnb.
• Engage with users of products our team owns - we expect all engineers to be able to drive projects end to end, gather user feedback or collaborate with product managers, create and manage feature roll out plans and migrations.
• Contribute to maintaining a high technical quality bar by identifying quality or architecture improvements projects, improving testability, observability, and reviewing other’s code and technical designs.
• Support the team’s operations via lightweight on-call support.

Company Description

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.