Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Distributed Transactional Database 

United States 

362519897

The Difference You Will Make:

We’re looking to add Senior engineers who are hands-on and capable of solving broad and deep technical challenges in the following areas:

• Control Plane and Operations
  • Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.
  • Design, automate critical database operations such as centralized and hierarchical config management system, fully automated image building and release certification for major version upgrades, zero-downtime Blue/Green deployment.
  • Be part of the team that defines and delivers a generalized database platform for partner KVStore, ORM, MySql teams.
• Migration and Adoption
  • Deliver a zero-downtime forward and reverse replication pipeline with near-real-time consistency between two transactional databases, with correctness guarantee across transactional boundaries. Deliver a robust failover/failback mechanism to guarantee correctness and continuity during unexpected outages.
• Backup & Restore
  • Conduct case study of all Airbnb’s disaster recovery scenarios, leverage existing open source and/or design and implement software that satisfies Airbnb’s requirements on database backup and restore, cross-region data resiliency, PiTR, etc.
  • Design the right cluster topology, restore logic, and ransomware policy to safeguard Airbnb’s business continuity.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Experience in deep diving and then owning a complex code base.
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.
• Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, Networking, Security offerings. E.g. external-dns, route53, ebs etc.

Nice to haves

• Experience in Java, Go, Rust or C++
• Experience with writing robust automation frameworks and tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes, operator pattern, helm, etc; experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Chef and Terraform

Offices: United States