Engineering Manager, Airbnb
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$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- Proven ability to hire and manage high-performing teams with strong organizational thinking
- Experienced in building healthy cross-functional partnerships with data producers and consumers, influencing peer teams to adopt best practices when needed
- Proven track record of 5+ years in management and technical leadership, with a strong focus on Data Infrastructure and supporting Data Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and/or Data Scientists
- Extensive prior experience in Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, and Software Engineering disciplines as an individual contributor
- Experience in building data applications that implement higher-level abstractions on top of lower-level data infrastructure to simplify complex data operations, improve scalability, and enhance overall system performance
- Proficient in working with data storage and distributed processing technologies (e.g., Hive, Spark, Trino, Flink, or other SQL databases)
- Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices
- Solid working knowledge of engineering best practices and the big data ecosystem
- Experienced in data modeling, database design, and various SQL dialects
- Proficient in containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Extensive background in workflow orchestration solutions, including Apache Airflow, Luigi, Azkaban, Oozie, Prefect, or Kubeflow
- Leverage experience in Data Engineering and Data Infrastructure to optimize processes and introduce new ideas and technologies that enhance data capabilities
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, build empathetic tools, and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience preferred
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented Engineering leader to run our Data Engineering Paved Path team to help us design and develop highly reliable, scalable, secure, and user-friendly frameworks
- In this role, your org will work with cross-functional data producers & consumer teams to develop data applications, tools, and frameworks at Airbnb
- Proven ability to hire and manage high-performing teams with strong organizational thinking
- Experienced in building healthy cross-functional partnerships with data producers and consumers, influencing peer teams to adopt best practices when needed
- Deliver trusted, timely, cost-efficient, and high-performance frameworks that support the production of central datasets and instrumentation to address critical business needs
- Stay updated on emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends in data engineering and software development
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior and senior engineers, fostering technical growth and professional development
- Collaborate with Data Infrastructure Engineers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Managers to design and build frameworks that support data development workflows
- Develop and maintain automation tools to streamline the deployment and management of the platform
- Maintain and evolve data engineering tools to ensure high availability, reliability, usability, and performance
- Work closely with data engineering and analytics teams to understand their needs and create a seamless path for interacting with the data warehouse
- Design and implement frameworks for processing data at scale, such as a metrics platform, SQL generation framework, or data quality framework
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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