Staff Software Engineer, Transactional Storage Services

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Requirements:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Hands-on experience in building and operating distributed NoSQL or NewSQL databases and services.
• Solid understanding of systems and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Experience in deep diving and then owning a complex code base.
• Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code.
• Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and figure out monitoring metrics, failure scenarios and debug them in an efficient manner.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, Networking, Security offerings. E.g. external-dns, route53, ebs etc.

Responsibilities:

• Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around Airbnb’s NewSQL database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc.
• Be the point of contact for a stateful system running on top of Kubernetes infra interfacing with AWS networking and security APIs.
• Design, automate, and document database operations; de-noise for the team.
• Conduct case studies of Airbnb’s disaster recovery scenarios, leverage existing open source and/or design software that satisfies Airbnb’s requirements on database backup and restore, cross-region data resiliency, PiTR, etc.
• Collaborate with vendor and open source communities to define the correct paved path in this area.
• Read and comprehend existing open-source code to understand the system's functionality and architecture. Propose and implement enhancements to the database system, ensuring performance, scalability and reliability.
• Contribute code, documentation, and bug fixes back to the open-source community.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in database technologies and distributed systems. Experiment with new tools and technologies to improve the database system.
• Participate in regular on-call and interact with key customers to have insights on pain points and gaps, improve team’s operational rigor.
• Coach more junior members of the team and guide them on iterating on designs and solving the right problems, provide insightful design and code review feedback.