Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead – KV Stores, Caching
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.
• 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.
Requirements:
• 10+ 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:
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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• 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.
• 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.
Requirements:
• 10+ 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:
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Apply Now
Apply Now