Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog
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, end-to-end data lineage products, and metadata-driven data policies.
Domain
Travel technology, Data Infrastructure, Data Governance
Required skills
Data infrastructure engineering, distributed processing (Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink), metadata management, data lineage, workflow orchestration (Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow), data governance frameworks, Java/Python/Scala
Preferred skills
Experience with metadata integration frameworks, building scalable metadata onboarding tooling
Technologies
Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, SQL, Java, Python, Scala, Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kubeflow
Responsibilities
Develop data catalog products for data discovery and metadata management; Build end-to-end data lineage across online, offline, and ML datasets; Design metadata integrations for various data systems; Implement metadata-driven data policies and procedures; Collaborate on data quality and governance programs.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
