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Staff Software Engineer – Technical Lead, Storage

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2007H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

4 days ago

Salary

$204K - $255K / year

9 yrs expEnglishDistributed Systems

Job Description

• Drive the technical vision and execution for our KV stores and caching infrastructure. • Mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and ensure the team delivers high-impact solutions. • Define the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure at Airbnb. • Evolve our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases, expanding the platform's capabilities and customer base. • Build a multi-tenant caching solution for Airbnb. • Guide the rearchitecture of our KV write path to remove infrastructure complexity while improving replication lag. • Oversee frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms.

Job Requirements

  • 9+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
  • Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
  • Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

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