Remote Staff Data Engineer, Tech Foundations

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.


Staff Data Engineer, Enterprise Core Datasets, Tech Foundations


The Community You Will Join:


At Airbnb, trustworthy data powers business decisions, product innovation, and operational efficiency. The Enterprise Core Datasets team builds the technical data foundations that help Airbnb understand how the business operates, where resources are invested, and how new technologies create value.


Our scope spans high-impact datasets across the organization: measuring AI adoption, usage, and cost; understanding revenue, costs, and profitability through Unit Economics; integrating non-platform data from Jira and other enterprise applications; and powering critical company metrics such as Gross Booking Value and Revenue.


You will join a team that values thoughtful architecture, engineering rigor, and operational ownership. We collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, finance, and business teams to turn complex requirements into dependable, reusable data assets. We welcome strong engineers who are curious about the business and eager to solve problems across diverse domains.


The Difference You Will Make:


As a Staff Data Engineer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership for datasets that shape decisions across Airbnb. Your work will help the organization measure AI adoption and spending, understand the economics of its products, and connect enterprise application data to meaningful business and operational insights.


You will lead complex initiatives from problem definition and architectural design through implementation, validation, and production operations. You will build extensible data foundations that accommodate new AI tools, products, cost categories, and enterprise systems while maintaining clear definitions, traceability, and reliable historical data.


Operating in an ecosystem that includes petabyte-scale datasets, you will improve correctness, freshness, performance, and cost efficiency. You will develop reusable frameworks that simplify source onboarding, reduce duplicated logic, and make critical data easier to discover and use. Through mentorship and contributions to Airbnb’s shared data engineering tools and standards, your impact will extend across the data community.


A Typical Day:



  • Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of high-impact data pipelines across AI usage and cost, Unit Economics, enterprise applications, and critical Financial metrics.

  • Partner with stakeholders to define how AI adoption, consumption, and spending are measured across the organization, and build consistent data models that support those definitions.

  • Evolve Unit Economics datasets to connect revenue and diverse cost drivers, enabling teams to understand product profitability and resource efficiency.

  • Build reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines for non-platform systems such as Jira and other BizTech enterprise applications.

  • Translate ambiguous requirements into clear source contracts, reusable fact and dimension models, and technical designs.

  • Develop configurable pipelines and shared components that simplify onboarding new data sources, products, and business requirements.

  • Establish automated testing, reconciliation, anomaly detection, and monitoring to protect data accuracy, completeness, and availability.

  • Lead safe migrations and historical backfills through dependency analysis, validation, controlled cutovers, and recovery planning.

  • Optimize distributed processing, storage, and query performance to improve freshness and reduce compute costs.

  • Own production reliability through on-call participation, incident response, and lasting improvements to systems and runbooks.

  • Shape the technical roadmap, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute improvements to Airbnb’s Data Engineering Paved Path.


Your Expertise:



  • 9+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; or 6+ years of relevant experience with a PhD.

  • A track record of leading complex data engineering initiatives from ambiguous requirements through architecture, delivery, and sustained production ownership.

  • Deep expertise in SQL and strong programming skills in Python or Scala, with experience building maintainable, well-tested data systems.

  • Extensive experience with distributed processing technologies such as Apache Spark and large-scale analytical storage systems.

  • Strong data modeling skills, including fact and dimension design, slowly changing dimensions, incremental processing, and historical data management.

  • Experience integrating heterogeneous sources, including APIs, enterprise applications, event data, and transactional systems, while managing schema changes and source reliability.

  • Proven ability to build reliable pipelines and execute migrations and backfills while preserving correctness and downstream compatibility.

  • Experience establishing data quality controls, observability, lineage, governance, and effective incident recovery practices.

  • Strong performance engineering skills, including diagnosing bottlenecks and optimizing distributed computation, storage, and query execution.

  • The ability to align stakeholders across engineering and business functions, communicate architectural tradeoffs, and drive decisions across team boundaries.

  • Demonstrated technical leadership through mentorship, architectural guidance, and improvements to shared engineering practices.

  • Curiosity and sound judgment when learning new domains and balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term system health.


Experience with AI usage or cost measurement, cloud cost attribution, Unit Economics, enterprise application data, or financial and payments datasets is a plus. Familiarity with workflow orchestration, SQL transformation frameworks, and modern table formats such as Apache Iceberg is also valuable.


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.




Back to blog

Common Interview Questions And Answers

1. HOW DO YOU PLAN YOUR DAY?

This is what this question poses: When do you focus and start working seriously? What are the hours you work optimally? Are you a night owl? A morning bird? Remote teams can be made up of people working on different shifts and around the world, so you won't necessarily be stuck in the 9-5 schedule if it's not for you...

2. HOW DO YOU USE THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS?

When you're working on a remote team, there's no way to chat in the hallway between meetings or catch up on the latest project during an office carpool. Therefore, virtual communication will be absolutely essential to get your work done...

3. WHAT IS "WORKING REMOTE" REALLY FOR YOU?

Many people want to work remotely because of the flexibility it allows. You can work anywhere and at any time of the day...

4. WHAT DO YOU NEED IN YOUR PHYSICAL WORKSPACE TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WORK?

With this question, companies are looking to see what equipment they may need to provide you with and to verify how aware you are of what remote working could mean for you physically and logistically...

5. HOW DO YOU PROCESS INFORMATION?

Several years ago, I was working in a team to plan a big event. My supervisor made us all work as a team before the big day. One of our activities has been to find out how each of us processes information...

6. HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE CALENDAR AND THE PROGRAM? WHICH APPLICATIONS / SYSTEM DO YOU USE?

Or you may receive even more specific questions, such as: What's on your calendar? Do you plan blocks of time to do certain types of work? Do you have an open calendar that everyone can see?...

7. HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE FILES, LINKS, AND TABS ON YOUR COMPUTER?

Just like your schedule, how you track files and other information is very important. After all, everything is digital!...

8. HOW TO PRIORITIZE WORK?

The day I watched Marie Forleo's film separating the important from the urgent, my life changed. Not all remote jobs start fast, but most of them are...

9. HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A MEETING AND PREPARE A MEETING? WHAT DO YOU SEE HAPPENING DURING THE MEETING?

Just as communication is essential when working remotely, so is organization. Because you won't have those opportunities in the elevator or a casual conversation in the lunchroom, you should take advantage of the little time you have in a video or phone conference...

10. HOW DO YOU USE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS, IN YOUR WORK AND FOR YOUR PLEASURE?

This is a great question because it shows your comfort level with technology, which is very important for a remote worker because you will be working with technology over time...

Other Jobs To Apply

Remote Entry Level Tech Support 100% WORK FROM HOME + Benefits

Technical Support Manager

Watch Netflix (Tagger): $12-$46

Outdoor Article Writer (Hiking Safety / Real-World Content)

Product Manager II - Xbox Platform

Facebook Marketplace Review Expert Needed

Apple Remote Jobs in USA $30/Hour

Remote Work From Home Customer Service Representative Agent - Part Time Panelists Needed

Utilization Review Nurse- Remote

Remote| Inbound Sales Representative$150k-$225k+(TV Documentary/Media)

Sr. Event Experience Manager (Incentive & Sales Meeting Experience Required) - Remote

OnlyFans Chatter Entry Level (No Experience)

Senior Researcher - Consumer Insights, Series

Product Tester

Michigan Utilization Review Nurse - LPN (100% Remote)

Claims Appraiser - Auto Estimatics

Account Executive - Montreal

Remote HR Enablement Lead

Freelance Video Editor

Video Production Internship Focus on Live Filming OnSite Capture

Remote Cybersecurity Engineer, DoD Health IT & EHR

Remote Triage RN – Access, Part-time, Rotating Evenings & Days (Weekend availability required) in Chicago, IL

Amazon Package Delivery Driver - Earn $16.50 - $29.00/hr. Job in Columbus TopStateCareers

Warehouse Agent (JFK Airport)

Entry Level Jobs (Work from home) Apple Jobs At Home, Apple Careers At Home, Apple Remote Job – Iceland Job ID- 605 Job ID- 2798

RN Care Coordinator-Substance Use Disorder

Retail Associates

Nurse Consultant –

Game Review - Remote

Tire and Lube Technician

UK Home-Based Transcriber

Night Shift Data Entry — Growth, Flex Hours & Weekly Pay

Miramar Overnight Warehouse Associate with $19-$23/hr Pay | Hiring

$7000 to $11,000 weekly - Owner Operator Freight Dispatch Services - 6% Flat Rate, First 2 Weeks Free

Contract Entry Level Cyber Security Analyst | Remote $85K/yr – $105K/yr Job ID- 3199

Administrative Assistant Admin Work From Home - Part Time Focus Group Panelists - Now Hiring

Amazon Delivery Driver

Evening Remote Data Entry Specialist (Part-Time)

Amazon seeks XL Warehouse Associate in Miami Gardens | Hiring

Watch Netflix (Tagger): $12-$46

**Experienced Customer Service Representative – Part-Time Evening Shift in Saint Charles, MO at arenaflex**

Part Time/Full Time Remote Data Entry Specialist

Structural Mechanical Inspector II/III

Nurse Liaison I – Utilization Management & Quality Review – Remote

Watch Netflix (Tagger): $12-$46

Senior Director of Applied AI for Gaming

Virtual Visions: Seeking Remote Evening Jobs from Home

Office Clerk And Receptionist|Part-Time Job|Doral | Part Time Job

Software Developer-Amazon NYC

Entry-Level Model - Lifestyle Clothing Brand (Flexible Hours)