Engineering Manager, Storage

Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique experiences. The Engineering Manager for the Control Plane team will lead a diverse group of software engineers to enhance database operations and ensure integration with Airbnb’s infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Work with TL and team to define and execute on a vision and 3-year roadmap for the control plane area
• Stay in touch with technical designs and decisions, be the sounding board
• Synthesize technical information and represent the team with upper management
• Align with ORM and SRE teams in Online Data on each team’s charter and how each team’s core capabilities fit together
• Attract top talent, mentor individual contributors and manage their promotions and career
• Nurture a culture of rigor and responsibly 'moving fast' from design, through code review, to production
• Represent Airbnb with open source communities and external alliance partners

Requirements:

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 6+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Experience with building and operating distributed databases and services that are long-term and evolvable
• Experience in organization design for a team that is scaling up
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, networking, Kubernetes, Security offerings
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization