Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring

USA
Software Engineering

About the Role

At Airbnb in the Travel & Hospitality space, Belong Anywhere: Connect Through Travel, Community, and Trust.

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><strong>The Community you will join</strong></p>

<p>Airbnb's Data Authoring Platform exists to turn raw data into decision-grade insight, fast, reliable, and at scale. We provide a single, paved path for 4,000+ internal data producers and consumers to model, transform, and serve trustworthy data and metrics that power everything from A/B experimentation to executive dashboards.</p>

<p>What we own:</p>

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<li>Minerva, Airbnb's<a href="https://medium.com/Airbnb-engineering/how-Airbnb-achieved-metric-consistency-at-scale-f23cc53dea70"> semantic layer & metrics platform</a>, ensuring one definition of truth across Airbnb.</li>

<li>The end-to-end data-authoring framework that cuts through pipeline boilerplate and accelerates iteration, pipeline testing, and validation.</li>

<li>Tooling for reliability, governance, and cost-efficiency, including automated testing, anomaly detection, and right-sized materialization.</li>

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<p><strong>The difference you will make</strong></p>

<p>As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Minerva, you will own and drive high-impact workstreams end to end. You'll take ambiguous problem spaces, such as making experimentation faster and easier, talk to users, define the work, and deliver it. Your work will help thousands of internal users de

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What It's Like to Work at Airbnb

What It's Like to Work Here

Globe Global Belonging Mindset
Heart Empathy-Driven Problem Solving
Lightbulb Creative Risk-Taking
Users Community-First Mentality
Zap Ownership and Accountability

Frequently Asked Questions About Working at Airbnb

Common questions candidates ask about this role and Airbnb's workplace

Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide

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Airbnb is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Travel & Flexibility, Health & Wellness, Family & Support, Professional Development, Financial & Equity. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Global Belonging Mindset and Empathy-Driven Problem Solving and Creative Risk-Taking.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Mission-Driven Culture and Genuine Flexibility and Trust.

Airbnb has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Airbnb currently has 173 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Business Development, Legal, Financial Planning and Analysis. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/airbnb/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Airbnb's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.

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