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# Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure

- **Company:** Airbnb
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $196,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Databases, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, MySQL, Data Streaming, Data Processing, Data Ingestion, Debezium, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Stream Processing
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pthl6nuqoo

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems, such as data ingestion, streaming, CDC, storage, or data platforms.
 * Hands-on experience with streaming systems like Kafka, and with how databases capture and publish changes (binlogs, Debezium, or similar).
 * Ability to own and go deep in a complex codebase.
 * Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems at scale.
 * Clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code.
 * Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
 * Strong ownership and a track record of delivering on time.

Nice To Have

 * Experience building managed or multi-tenant platforms used by other engineering teams.
 * Familiarity with MySQL/Aurora, schema evolution, or large-scale batch data processing.