Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Metrics Infrastructure
$244-304k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$244-304k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment. You should have direct experience as an engineer working at a staff+ level
- BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
- Experience with data infrastructure (storage, processing, orchestration) and/or data-driven application development
- Experience with modern software development practices
- Experience with data modeling, database design, and SQL semantics is a huge plus
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading highly technical and senior teams and setting technical direction and strategy
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
- Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior and staff engineers
- Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering
What the job involves
- The Analytics Infrastructure Team's mission is to empower data-driven decision-making across the company through robust, scalable, and innovative analytics products
- We build and maintain the libraries, frameworks, and visualization tools that enable our data scientists, analysts, and engineers to derive insights and drive impact
- Our team embraces a collaborative environment where engineers, data scientists, and product specialists work together to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality solutions
- We manage products like Apache Superset (BI tool currently used by over 2500 weekly active users), Airbnb’s in-house build Metric system which enables metric consistency at scale, and the Experimentation platform, which enables safe product launches and deep insights into product features
- As an Engineering Manager on the Metrics Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, technical strategy / roadmap and for delivering a next generation metrics and semantic querying platform that scales with our business
- You will lead the team towards unlocking new capabilities essential to Airbnb’s future strategy
- Extending our framework for semantically modeling data to enable simplified discovery and querying, while ensuring accuracy and performance
- Automatically generating materialized views of data based on query history, performance and cost
- Improving developer workflows to enable rapid prototyping and graduation of new metrics and dimensions
- Support the team in delivering a framework which ensures reliability, efficiency and correctness at scale, while making it for producers and consumers to use
- Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture
- Be conversant in systems design/architecture, can reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team
- Work across the organization, partnering with both upstream dependencies (e.g. data infrastructure), and customers
- Empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity
- Stays current on leading industry trends and participates in defining the company’s engineering culture
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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