Demonstrates expertise in building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems, with a focus on data ingestion, streaming, and performance optimization. Strong collaboration and ownership skills are essential for delivering complex projects on time in a remote environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Large-Scale Backend Distributed SystemsStreaming Systems Like KafkaData Ingestion And CDCProduction Systems Maintenance And DebuggingCollaboration And Communication Skills

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsKafkaMySQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work hands-on with code, design, and testing, partnering with teams, internal customers, and leadership to deliver multi-month projects on time
Design, build, and operate large-scale CDC and batch export systems across Airbnb's online databases
Help shape the architecture of DMT's unified data movement platform
Improve the reliability, performance, and efficiency of systems supporting critical business functions
Simplify how Airbnb engineers move data into offline systems
Participate in on-call and raise the operational bar for the platform
Collaborate with DMT teams responsible for real-time streaming infrastructure, pipeline orchestration, and schema management

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems, such as data ingestion, streaming, CDC, storage, or data platforms
Hands-on experience with streaming systems like Kafka
Experience with how databases capture and publish changes, including binlogs, Debezium, or similar
Ability to own and go deep in a complex codebase
Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems at scale
Clean, readable, testable, and maintainable code
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment
Strong ownership and a track record of delivering on time
Experience building managed or multi-tenant platforms used by other engineering teams (nice to have)
Familiarity with MySQL/Aurora, schema evolution, or large-scale batch data processing (nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits eligibility
Employee Travel Credits
Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities

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Hard Skills

Data PlatformsCodebase OwnershipClean And Maintainable CodeBatch Data ProcessingSchema Evolution

Soft Skills

Strong OwnershipCollaboration SkillsCommunication Skills

Tools & Technologies

KafkaMySQLAuroraDebezium

Industry Keywords

Data Movement PlatformReal-Time Streaming InfrastructurePipeline OrchestrationOperational Reliability