Airbnb
Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring
$212K–$265K
USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- USA
United States - Experience
- 9+ years
About the job
Build and operate Minerva, Airbnb’s metrics and semantic-layer platform, enabling internal teams to define and use trustworthy business data.
What you'll do
- Build and extend Minerva core services, including its query rewriting service.
- Scope and deliver ambiguous, cross-team projects in partnership with users and other teams.
- Own design, implementation, testing, and on-call for systems you build.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of hands-on software engineering, primarily building and deploying production applications and services.
- Deep proficiency in at least one modern general-purpose language.
- Experience with data platforms or data tooling and understanding of data users’ needs.
- Strong command of OOP, API design, and distributed systems patterns; ability to drive ambiguous cross-team projects independently.
Nice to have
- Experience with experimentation platforms or metrics, semantic layer, BI, or analytics platforms.
- Experience with query engines, query rewriting/optimization, data warehouse internals, DSLs, compilers, or APIs for data transformations.
Pay
$212,000 — $265,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, Python, TypeScript, dbt, Tableau
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