Airbnb

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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.