Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure

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 conne...

Airbnb's Data Infrastructure organization builds the systems that store, move, and transform data across the company. Our Data Movement & Transformation (DMT) group is building a single, unified platform for moving data between Airbnb's storage systems, replacing dozens of one-off tools with one reliable, well-suppo...

The Ingestion team is the front door to DMT. We build and operate two managed, multi-tenant platforms that move data out of Airbnb's online databases for offline processing:

5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems, such as data ingestion, streaming, CDC, storage, or data platforms.
Hands-on experience with streaming systems like Kafka, and with how databases capture and publish changes (binlogs, Debezium, or similar).
Ability to own and go deep in a complex codebase.
Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems at scale.
Clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code.
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
Strong ownership and a track record of delivering on time.
Experience building managed or multi-tenant platforms used by other engineering teams.
Familiarity with MySQL/Aurora, schema evolution, or large-scale batch data processing.