Senior Software Engineer, Storage

🕒 September 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $196k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate Airbnb's source-of-truth, horizontally scalable, open-source NewSQL database running on stateful Kubernetes • Diagnose and fix SQL latency and availability issues in database internals • Work closely with Airbnb's open-source database vendor on root cause analysis and upstream contributions • Analyze query and storage layers to explain latency differences between B-tree and LSM-based storage engines • Analyze query plans and execution paths to find and fix sources of SQL latency • Tune storage engine behavior, including compaction, caching, and I/O, for Airbnb's workloads • Design and implement traffic prioritization at the storage layer for connection pooling • Drive root cause analysis on high-severity incidents with the open-source vendor and land fixes upstream

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant hands-on work on a database storage layer or query execution engine • Strong SQL skills • Understanding of query planning, optimization, and execution at the engine level • Deep understanding of storage engine internals, including B-tree/LSM, compaction, indexing, and I/O, and/or query processing • Experience with distributed databases, including replication, consensus, and transactions, is a strong plus • Familiarity with NewSQL systems such as TiDB is a bonus • Ability to own and dive deeply into a complex database codebase, ideally an open-source one • Experience analyzing and debugging high-severity production incidents, especially performance and latency problems • Writes clean, testable, maintainable code • Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote working environment • Strong ownership and consistent track record of delivery

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits eligibility • Employee Travel Credits • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities

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