Airbnb
Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog
$212K–$265K
USA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- USA
United States - Experience
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, focused on data infrastructure.
- Education
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Leads development of data catalog and metadata infrastructure so Airbnb’s data assets are discoverable, governed, and integrated across its data ecosystem.
What you'll do
- Build data catalog products for discovery, metadata management, data quality, and lineage.
- Develop metadata infrastructure and governance capabilities, including ownership, classification, privacy, access control, and retention.
- Create scalable metadata integrations and onboarding processes in collaboration with data infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- Experience with data storage and distributed processing technologies such as Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, or SQL databases.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Python, or Scala.
- Experience with data catalog products and metadata infrastructure, management, integration, or tooling.
- Knowledge of data governance frameworks and processes, including classification, lineage, quality, privacy, and retention.
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow orchestration solutions such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, or Kubeflow.
Pay
$212,000 — $265,000 USD base salary
Tools
Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, SQL databases, Java, Python, Scala
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