CareerPlan

Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog

USARemoteFull-time$212k–$265k2026-10-17 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead the development of Data Catalog infrastructure products to ensure all data assets at Airbnb are cataloged, discoverable, and governed.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

Builds

Data catalog infrastructure, metadata management tooling, data lineage products, and metadata-driven data policies.

Domain

Travel technology / Data Infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed processing technologies (Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink), Data catalog product experience, Workflow orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow), Data governance frameworks, Java/Python/Scala

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, SQL, Java, Python, Scala, Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow

Responsibilities

Develop and implement data catalog products for data discovery and metadata management; Build end-to-end data lineage products across online, offline, and ML datasets; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure datasets meet business and regulatory requirements; Design and build metadata integrations for various data systems; Develop metadata-driven data policies and procedures.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC