Senior Staff Data Engineer, Foundational Data
Core
Technical leader defining and building foundational datasets for Airbnb's infrastructure intelligence, AI cost/performance measurement, and cloud cost attribution.
Role type
Senior Staff Data Engineer (Technical Lead, no direct reports)
Builds
High-quality, widely reused datasets for infrastructure telemetry, AI model economics, and cloud cost attribution
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Data engineering, SQL, Python, dimensional modeling, metric definition, technical strategy, cross-org consensus building, hands-on pipeline architecture
Preferred skills
Analytics engineering fluency, Scala, AI/ML data domain knowledge
Technologies
Airflow, Minerva, SQL, Python, Scala
Responsibilities
Define multi-year data strategy and architecture for foundational data assets; Design and build datasets integrating cost, utilization, and performance signals; Provide technical leadership across data and analytics engineering work; Stay hands-on in pipelines and models; Coach distributed team via design reviews and automated checks; Navigate stakeholder requirements across Infrastructure, Finance, and Product Engineering
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC technical leader