Senior Staff Data Engineer (Foundational Data)

- You do not need prior experience with cloud cost, infrastructure, or AI/ML data to succeed here - You have written the multi-year technical strategy for an area, and got other organizations to fund and deliver against it - You have built a data product where no schema or precedent existed, and persuaded other teams to adopt it - You have been the technical lead on a team or program, setting direction that other senior engineers executed against without formal authority over them, while still writing code yourself - 12+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS/Masters, or 9+ years with a PhD, in data engineering or a closely related field - You have written the document that aligned several teams on a contested technical decision, and you can explain a data model to a finance partner as readily as to an engineer - You have designed, built, and operated production data pipelines at large scale, and you write strong SQL and Python. Scala experience is useful but not required - You have moved into an unfamiliar data or technical domain and become productive quickly, building enough understanding of the underlying systems to model them well - You can design a dimensional model and define a metric others will trust, even if analytics engineering has not been your job title

Join Airbnb as a Senior Staff Data Engineer in the Foundational Data team. You will be the technical leader, setting the direction for the team and owning the long-term data architecture. This hands-on…