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Airbnb · 9 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Experimentation Data

Airbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. The Experimentation team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to build infrastructure for experimentation, focusing on data pipelines and analysis engines to enhance decision-making and customer understanding.

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Responsibilities

Work to build, maintain, optimize and extend complex and large scale data processing pipelines
Contribute to Airbnb’s library for flexible and extensible on-demand analysis of experiments
Partner with teams across the organization to improve the impact of experimentation across the company
Participate in all phases of software development of the overall platform from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call
Work closely with Data Science partners to implement sophisticated statistical methodologies into the platform
Participate in experiment reviews to understand how our customers use our infrastructure, identify areas for improvement and learn about features rolling out across the company

Qualification

Data processingAPI designExperimentation methodologyPythonSparkSQLStatistical computationJavaDataflowFlinkKafka

Required

9+ years in a hands-on software engineering role, shipping high quality code to production, especially for high scale, distributed systems, data pipelines, and/or analytical libraries
Experience with at least one modern, general programming language (e.g. Python, Java)
Experience with scientific/statistical computation, especially involving online experimentation
Experience building software with ergonomic interfaces and great developer experience, especially for technical data users (e.g. data scientists)
Experience with at least one modern “big data” technology (e.g. Spark, Dataflow)
Strong SQL skills - you should be able to “go deep” when debugging or optimizing

Preferred

Experience building frameworks which generate data pipelines at scale
Experience with a distributed stream processing framework (e.g. Flink, Kafka, Dataflow)

Benefits

Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits

Company

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.

H1B Sponsorship

Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (234)
2024 (176)
2023 (160)
2022 (270)
2021 (250)
2020 (274)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$6.44B
Key Investors
VERSO CapitalJP Morgan ChaseFirstMark
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B

Leadership Team

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Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
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Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
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