Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Data Movement & Transformation
$204-255k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-255k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced technology environment
- Experience building and operating distributed systems, databases, or large-scale infrastructure services
- Experience designing and evolving systems intended to operate reliably over long time horizons
- Experience scaling teams and contributing to organizational design in growing engineering organizations
- Strong familiarity with at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and core infrastructure primitives such as compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and security systems
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and product organizations
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager for the Airbus Control Plane team, you will lead a talented and diverse group of engineers responsible for building and operating the systems that power Airbnb’s data movement infrastructure
- Your team develops the control plane responsible for defining, orchestrating, and operating data pipelines reliably at scale. This includes systems for pipeline configuration, automated deployments, cluster provisioning, SLA tracking, auto-remediation, and schema change propagation
- You will also play a key role in ensuring that the open-source technologies used by Airbus are deeply integrated with Airbnb’s internal Compute, Networking, and Security platforms, enabling teams across the company to move and manage data safely and efficiently
- This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, developer platforms, and data infrastructure, and has broad impact across many of Airbnb’s core product and infrastructure teams
- Examples of systems owned by the team include:
- Pipeline definition interfaces that enable teams to declaratively define data pipelines and transformations powering many critical Airbnb use cases
- Orchestration services responsible for managing the lifecycle of pipelines and the infrastructure they depend on
- Materialization services that consume change logs and integrate with Airbnb’s GraphQL layer to join, transform, and transport data across multiple storage systems
- Infrastructure provisioning and integration, including automated creation and management of Kafka topics, Flink jobs, and connectors to systems such as Iceberg, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and caching layers
- Schema management systems that detect, validate, and automatically remediate unexpected schema changes across databases to maintain pipeline reliability
- You will work closely with peers across Online Data, product engineering teams, and infrastructure groups including Compute, Networking, Security, and Reliability, as well as with external partners and open source communities
- A Typical Day:
- Partner with the Tech Lead and team to define and execute the long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for the Airbus Control Plane
- Guide architectural direction and stay engaged with key technical designs, serving as a thought partner and sounding board for engineers and tech leads
- Synthesize complex technical topics and represent the team’s work, priorities, and tradeoffs to senior leadership and partner teams
- Collaborate with Data Movement, Online Data, and Offline Data teams to ensure Airbus integrates seamlessly across Airbnb’s broader data ecosystem
- Hire and develop exceptional engineers, providing mentorship, feedback, and career growth opportunities
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence and operational rigor, balancing thoughtful design with the ability to move fast responsibly
- Represent Airbnb in open source communities and external partnerships to help shape the ecosystem around the technologies the team builds upon
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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