• Lead solution delivery activities across multiple customer engagements, ensuring high-quality, on-time, and on-budget outcomes • Provide strategic guidance to project teams, offering expert leadership on solution design, implementation challenges, and risk mitigation • Review and approve architecture, design documentation, and test strategies to maintain consistency and excellence across projects • Facilitate customer workshops to define technical architectures, develop solution specifications, and align scope, timelines, and budget • Mentor global teams on best practices, industry trends, and implementation approaches for Blue Planet solutions • Manage complex stakeholder relationships and navigate challenging delivery scenarios with clarity and confidence • Oversee internal delivery activities, drive process improvements, and contribute to the evolution of consulting methodologies.

• Design, implement and maintain a robust, efficient and compliant application data repository and integration architecture. • Work with Business and IT stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and provide application support. • Coordinate, direct and oversee the work of third-party engineers through solution design reviews, code reviews and process reviews. • Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements like, automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability. • Research and analyze new technologies, methodologies and architectures for viability. • Build and maintain a service-based architecture for web and mobile applications. • Work independently within a scrum delivery team, with oversight from domain and enterprise architects, in support of business-critical applications. • Contribute to the development of frameworks, guidelines, best practices and examples to ensure data structures and integration processes are accurate, compliant and secure. • Implement telemetry indicators to monitor performance, quality metrics to track accuracy and access controls to ensure compliance.

• Architect and productionize a scalable data warehouse or lakehouse environment that serves as the company’s definitive system of record. • Lead the end-to-end integration of primary source systems, including CRM, financial, HR, and marketing data, into a unified platform. • Define and gain cross-functional alignment on standardized business metrics such as ARR, CAC, churn, and headcount costs. • Automate 90% or more of recurring executive and departmental reporting to replace manual processes with real-time, self-service dashboards. • Establish and enforce rigorous data governance standards, including 99% pipeline reliability, comprehensive documentation, and strict access controls. • Partner with leadership across Finance, Marketing, and Operations to translate ambiguous business questions into actionable data products and insights. • Develop a long-term strategic roadmap for the data function, including future hiring plans and the sequencing of specialized engineering and analyst roles. • Drive the adoption of the data platform as the primary engine for recurring business reviews and high-stakes organizational decisions.

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Marketplaces Data and AI Org is a group of passionate machine learning, data, and analytics engineers responsible for creating new data products that drive quality, understanding and bookings. You’ll be part of the overall Guest and Host organization that is responsible for the Airbnb web and native apps used by hundreds of millions of our guests and Hosts. The Users and Contextualization Data & AI team, a vital part of the Marketplace Data & AI, focuses on building foundational data and systems to provide Airbnb teams with a deeper understanding of key domains. Specifically, this team concentrates on user data (Guest & Host), aiming to create high-quality, foundational, and well-governed user data and insights. These insights are crucial for enabling personalized and context-aware experiences that enhance trip quality both on and off the Airbnb platform, ultimately helping Airbnb better understand and serve its users throughout their journey. The Difference You Will Make: The quality of data related to Users, Listings, and Marketplaces is foundational to Airbnb's success, directly impacting our products and business. To enhance our data foundation and maximize the value derived from our data and machine learning models, we are significantly expanding our Data Engineering efforts in these crucial areas. A key opportunity lies in deepening our understanding of Airbnb users to improve the experience for both Hosts and Guests. As a Data Engineer focusing on this area, you will be responsible for executing these initiatives. This involves close collaboration with backend and analytics teams, product partners, and other data and ML engineers. Furthermore, you will have the chance to work directly with ML engineers on developing integrated NRT data and machine learning solutions. Ultimately, your contributions will lead to a better comprehension of Airbnb users and enhance their overall end-to-end product experience. A Typical Day: - Architect and productionize batch and real-time data systems to power products for Airbnb Guests and Hosts, or our business/sales teams. - Ensure the quality, performance, and stability of data systems with thoughtful quality systems and monitoring - Tune, productionize, and optimize data systems powering Airbnb products - Collaborate with product teams to extract data requirements from product specs to develop scalable and flexible systems - Collaborate and build relationships with partner engineering including backend/client, data science, analytics, and ML Your Expertise: - 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in CS/EE, or equivalent experience, or 6+ years of experience with a PhD - Experience collaborating with client, backend, ml, analytics teams, product and business partners - Experience designing and deploying high performance Batch & NRT systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices. - Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching data architecture, data flow, and provide guidance to individual teams. - Strong knowledge of relational databases and query authoring (SQL) and streaming solutions. - Strong expertise with Python / Scala / Spark and operating on data at the petabyte scale. - Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Pay Range $204,000—$255,000 USD