Senior Software Engineer, Storage
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.
The Online Data organization empowers Airbnb's builders to create real-time data experiences through intuitive data interfaces and tools — no database expertise required. Within Online Data, the Transactional Storage Services team owns all of Airbnb's online serving stores and databases.
We design, build, and operate a new source-of-truth, open-source NewSQL database running on stateful Kubernetes. It hosts Airbnb's critical user, listing, and financial data, along with the essential database capabilities that support it: backup and restore, change data capture (CDC), and multi-tenancy.
The Community You Will Join
We're hiring across two teams within Transactional Storage Services. Both are described below.
- Database Kernel: The Kernel team owns performance, reliability, and stabil
