Senior Manager of Software Engineering, Airbnb
Security
$244-307k
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$244-307k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years managing people with at least 3 of those years supporting other managers
- Experience with AWS (GuardDuty, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, SNS, SQS, EC2, ...)
- Past experience in Software development
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar
- Demonstrated ability to support, scale, and advance like functions
- Deep understanding of strategic approaches and methodologies across the lifecycle of prevention, detection, response, and validation and how your teams fit in and are responsible for across these pillars and various programs that comprise Information Security
- Experience of disciplines spans corporate and product infrastructure as well as third party tooling and infrastructure
What the job involves
- The Information Security team plays a critical role in maintaining and building our community’s trust in our platform that enables millions of users to explore the world and belong anywhere
- . As a critical horizontal function within Airbnb, Information Security spans the scope of the company and organizations that make it up to secure Airbnb giving anyone who joins the team the ability to see all aspects of the business
- People Development: You have multiple years of experience in people management and supporting managers best support their teams
- You are an effective career coach and can provide mentorship and feedback both technically and professionally
- You enjoy investing in your teammates and developing growth and career progression plans with them to help them reach their highest potential
- You provide your people autonomy and in return, you expect the people you support to be self-driven and proactive
- Team Development: You are an effective leader that focuses on efficiency, quality, accountability, and delivering on and above expectations
- You play an active and primary role in identifying and recruiting top talent and supporting your teams to do so
- You understand when to roll up your sleeves and contribute and when to delegate and grow your managers, teammates, and cross-functional partners
- Technical Leadership: You have experience in developing and communicating effective and pragmatic strategies, supporting your managers to do so, and ensuring your teams are executing accordingly
- You don’t wait for things to happen to you, you make things happen and ensure your managers and team members do so as well
- You see across the functions you support and partner organizations to ensure alignment to common priorities and objectives while course correcting where needed
- This means you’re close enough to the work to spot alignment issues while also not inhibiting your team’s speed
- You have multiple years of experience establishing, growing, and or maturing software engineering functions
- You see beyond the immediate functions you support to tie software engineering priorities into a broader, integrated, and unified Information Security strategy
- Function development: You have experience establishing and building a multi-disciplinary team for a global company that focuses on engineering and related operational activities
- Influence & Communication: You have strong written and verbal communication skills
- You can dive into the details with technical and non-technical audiences alike but also speak at the appropriate altitude when working with other organizations and leaders
- You have empathy and seek to understand when communicating
- This enables you to effectively identify the best path forward and influence how you approach a problem, as well as how other teams may prioritize supporting your work
- Security Culture and Philosophy: you embrace the notion we are here to help Airbnb build and operate the business, securely
- You understand that improving security doesn’t mean introducing friction unless absolutely necessary
- We are a culture of helping others find the path to “yes” and help others find the most secure path while not inhibiting Airbnb to achieve business objectives
- You are stakeholder focused
- You drive this culture and philosophy within your organization and help the entire Information Security develop and uphold this culture
Application process
- 2-3 sentences
- Describe the role the individual will be doing
- Identify what success looks like in the role, including measurable outcomes
- Project descriptions, relevant project plans, prioritization
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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