Job Url: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/7009541/ Job Description: Your Expertise: 9+ years of experience building and operating large scale core backend distributed systems. Hands on experience building and operating large scale online distributed databases and offline data ingestion pipelines to export data from underlying storage. Familiarity with internals of distributed databases and offline data warehouse systems is a must. Strong cross team collaboration and written and verbal communication skills and capable of influencing stakeholders and conveying complex technical concepts effectively. Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship and guiding teams on best practices around data ingestion systems. Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base and knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code. Considerable experience working in either Java, Scala or Python and familiarity with SPARK and Kafka. Demonstrate strong ownership and ability to effectively plan multi month projects and deliver them in a timely manner. Nice to Haves Experience with AWS and/or GCP. Experience working with Flink, K8s, Airflow, AWS Aurora or TiDB. Experience working with Iceberg and generating incremental Iceberg DB snapshots.