Staff Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

Location: US remote eligible; must live in a state where the employer has a registered entity. Occasional work at an office or attendance at offsites may be required by agreement with the manager.

Salary: $212,000–$265,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Company

A mission-driven travel platform that connects hosts and guests through stays and experiences in communities worldwide.

What you will do

• Develop data catalog products for data discovery, metadata management, data quality, and data lineage.
• Build metadata infrastructure for ownership management, classification, privacy, access control, retention, and governance.
• Build an end-to-end data lineage product spanning online and offline data, machine learning, metrics, visualizations, and third-party datasets.
• Design metadata integrations with data infrastructure frameworks and build scalable onboarding tooling.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish metadata quality, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop metadata-driven data policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 9+ years of software engineering experience focused on data infrastructure.
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with data storage and distributed processing technologies such as Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, or SQL databases.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.
• Experience with data catalog products, metadata infrastructure, metadata integration frameworks, and metadata-driven data management.
• Knowledge of workflow orchestration and data governance, including classification, lineage, quality, privacy, and retention.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within eligible US states, with occasional office or offsite attendance.
• Cross-functional collaboration focused on building empathetic tools and platforms.
• Potential bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.
• Inclusive application and interview accommodations are available for candidates with disabilities.