Airbnb Data Engineer jobs
Airflow’s birthplace is fully remote-eligible — but the open data roles skew Senior Staff.
The Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer role
Airbnb data engineers and analytics engineers build Airflow-orchestrated pipelines, dimensional models and Minerva metric definitions that feed finance, infrastructure and product decisions, and a growing share of the work measures AI cost and usage. Open reqs are Senior Staff or Staff level, remote-eligible across the US, and increasingly blend DE and AE responsibilities within one team. Data-platform seats are Staff SWE reqs on the engineering ladder.
Small, senior-weighted data org: levels.fyi lists Data Engineer under the Software Engineer ladder (G7–G14), and teams deliberately mix Data Engineers with Analytics Engineers; heritage platforms are Apache Airflow (born at Airbnb) and the Minerva metrics platform, and the Data Warehouse req names Spark and Presto/Trino.
Airbnb data engineer salary
Base: the posted US range on Senior Analytics Engineer, Airbnb.org (posted Oct 5, 2026); no mid-level DE req is open, and the higher open reqs post $248,000–$310,000 (Senior Staff Data Engineer) and $212,000–$265,000 (Staff SWE Data Warehouse). All-in: levels.fyi Airbnb Data Engineer 25th–75th percentile (median $460k), Oct 2026 — only n=6, four of them at G9 (Senior), so it describes senior level rather than mid-level.
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