Staff Data Engineer, Tech Foundations

What the index says about this role

• First seen by JobLarper — Oct 16, 2026 (today). Still inside the window where applications get read by a human rather than a pile.
• No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 69 indexed Data Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $178k and $230k, median $205k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Airbnb.
• What Data Engineer roles ask for — across 440 indexed openings: SQL (62%), Python (60%), Cloud (41%), REST/APIs (35%), ML (28%). This posting names SQL, Python.
• Airbnb is hiring actively — 67 open roles indexed, 27 first appeared in the last 30 days.

Derived from the 28,483 roles JobLarper indexes daily from official company boards — not from the job description above.