Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure Service

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large scale core backend distributed systems like storage, data ingestion, backup and restore, streaming.
• Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base.
• Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
• Demonstrate strong ownership and consistently deliver in a timely manner.
• Experience working in either Java, Scala or Python.

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate data ingestion system that enables various ways of accessing data at Airbnb, including ingest DB data in the warehouse in various formats and frequency, and stream change data capture (CDC) at near real time.
• Be hands-on (code, design, test) and collaborate with cross team partners (internal customers, dependencies and leadership) to deliver on multi-month projects in a timely fashion.
• Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues. Be part of the oncall rotation for the DBExports platform.
• Mentor junior engineers on the team.