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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Airbnb
- **Location:** Gunnison, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $204,000.0 - $255,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Computing Environment, Machine Learning, Data Streaming, Apache Spark, Backend, Apache Flink, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/airbnb/staff-software-engineer-communication-connectivity

## About the Role

* 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 6+ years of experience with a PhD
 * Strong CS fundamentals, and knowledge of architecture and common design patterns
 * You're passionate about being in a product-focused environment where everyone cares deeply about customer impact
 * You have experience of running data processing pipelines in production using distributed data processing frameworks like Apache Spark or Flink
 * Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners
 * Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams
 * Experience working on/with end-to-end Machine Learning products
 * Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

## Description

* Shape the team's long-term vision and roadmap in close collaboration with cross-functional partners across Airbnb
 * Build strong relationships with partner engineering teams, including backend, client, data science, analytics, and ML, to drive aligned and impactful outcomes
 * Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines - both batch and real-time - that collect, process, and serve data from diverse sources across Airbnb
 * Implement robust offline and online feature building processes to enable faster production of ML products
 * Architect and build ML infra and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
 * Mentor and develop engineers on the team, while also contributing to and influencing the broader data engineering community at Airbnb


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