Senior Data Engineer, Guest & Host

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 23 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Community You Will Join:

The Guest & Host team based out of India operates to ensure high quality supply and merchandising differentiates our brand by providing tools to be used by 1000 operations agents for supply vetting and quality moderation. As Airbnb expands beyond the core it is looking to onboard supply outside of the core stays business which requires enhancing our tools. The operational tasks we face are diverse and rapidly evolving. The current manual processes and lack of optimum tooling capabilities hinder the ability of operation agents to work more efficiently maintain business continuity and achieve higher scale.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Data Engineer on the Guest & Host team you will play a pivotal role in shaping the systems that onboard and manage the highest quality supply across Airbnb. Youll build robust data pipelines and platforms that power end-to-end visibility for supply operations from onboarding and regulatory compliance to AI-assisted vetting and listing quality enforcement. Your work will directly enable operations product and ML teams to scale trusted supply globally ensuring every home service and experience meets Airbnbs standards. Whether its surfacing insights to optimize onboarding flows enabling smarter audit triggers or supporting nuanced licensing workflows your contributions will be foundational to helping hosts join Airbnb efficiently and ensuring guests have access to safe high-quality stays.
As you build and maintain key components of the critical data ecosystem youll have the opportunity to contribute to creating standards and best practices for Airbnbs Data Engineering. Your work on solving complex business challenges at scale will be instrumental in shaping the tools processes and standards used by the broader data community.

A Typical Day:

Design build and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect process and store data from various sources including user interactions listing details and external data feeds.
Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality consistency and accuracy.
Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Data Scientists Product Managers andSoftware Engineers to define data requirements and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements.
Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues

Your Expertise:

6 years of relevant industry experience
BE/ in computer science or relevant technical field
Extensive experience designing building and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g. Spark Kafka Flink HBase) and handling data at the petabyte scale.
Strong knowledge of Java Scala or Python and expertise with data processing technologies and query authoring (SQL).
Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies provide data insights and advance effective product solutions
Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow Luigi Oozie AWS Glue or similar frameworks
Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g. Redshift BigQuery HBase ClickHouse)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Required Experience:

Senior IC

The Community You Will Join:The Guest & Host team based out of India operates to ensure high quality supply and merchandising differentiates our brand by providing tools to be used by 1000 operations agents for supply vetting and quality moderation. As Airbnb expands beyond the core it is looking to...