Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Storage
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Posted today
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- As an engineering manager for the Control Plane team under Distributed Transactional Database org, you’ll lead a team of talented, diverse software engineers to build software to make database operations (deployment, cluster provisioning and restore, rolling restarts, configuration, scaling) reliable and automated, and to make the open-source database well-integrated with Airbnb’s Compute, Networking and Security infrastructure
- A few examples of control plane services that the team owns:
- Orchestration logic that handles node lifecycles of database’s storage, compute, metadata management nodes. (Blog link)
- Operator that automates cluster provisioning, operations and restore
- Configuration management that detects and auto-fixes unexpected configuration drifts
- Open source DevX: Make open-source development and testing (image building/testing, CICD, load testing and performance certification) frictionless
- Blue/green deployment and rollback strategy for major version upgrades
- In the future, strives towards the direction of platformization, providing the correct constructs and semantics for customers to self-manage their databases and keep the org’s KTLO and toil factor manageable
- Each manager brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb
- You will work closely with your peers within Online Data, many other partners in Airbnb Product teams, as well as Infra teams in Compute, Networking, Security, Reliability across the company and with external vendors
- 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
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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