Airbnb is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to serve as Technical Lead for the KV Stores & Caching team within our Online Data organization. You will drive the technical vision and execution for caching and KV infrastructure, mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and ensure the team delivers high-impact solutions.
What You'll Do
- Define the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure at Airbnb.
- Evolve the KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases, expanding the platform's capabilities and customer base.
- Build a multi-tenant caching solution for Airbnb.
- Guide the rearchitecture of the KV write path to remove infrastructure complexity while improving replication lag.
- Oversee frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms.
What We're Looking For
- 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
- Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
- Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.
Technical Stack
- Distributed KV stores
- ElasticCache
- Distributed coordination services
Team & Environment
You will be the Technical Lead for the KV Stores & Caching team within the Online Data organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits eligibility
- Employee Travel Credits
- Compensation: $204,000—$255,000 USD + equity
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates in the US.
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions.
All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
