Data Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's Trust Data Foundations team as an Engineering Manager, leading a team of data engineers. You will define the vision for scaling data-driven decisions in fraud detection and mitigation. Collaborate with various teams to establish data strategies and improve data accessibility. Responsibilities include defining technical direction, raising data quality, optimizing team operations, and hiring/developing talent. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of engineering management experience and 9+ years of software development experience. This US-remote eligible position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depends on the situation
• Experience working on user facing product surfaces, especially in search related product areas
• Strong product and design sense, can spot potential usability issues, provide alternative solutions and collaborate effectively with product, design and user research partners
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent

Responsibilities

• Define and execute on the technical direction and vision for the team to serve the data needs across Trust defenses and products
• Raise the quality bar for the data assets owned by the team
• Identify strategic areas to uplevel data accessibility for various Trust x-functional stakeholders
• Collaborate with and influence the data community across Airbnb to uplevel data engineering practices and processes
• Proactively collaborate with engineering, product, and operations to identify customer pain points
• Provide guidance on technical direction and foundational investments that are expected to uplevel accuracy and efficiency of data-driven decisions across Trust
• Optimize team operations to empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability, and simplicity (planning, prioritization, knowledge sharing, design review, incident response, etc.)
• Hiring and developing talents on your team
• Championing Airbnb’s culture of belonging
• Support the team to deliver data assets (batch, near real-time, streaming) across Airbnb’s data warehouses (Hive, Presto, StarRocks, Flink, etc.) with high quality
• Influence the technical direction of the projects to meet the data stakeholders needs while upholding quality. Quickly validate project ideas through iterative development, and pivot as necessary
• Streamline the team’s practices and processes to optimize the ways of working, both internally and with external teams
• Showcase the team’s work in front of senior leaders, clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and opportunities to a broad set of stakeholders
• Proactively share context with the team, and help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company and organizational initiatives
• Be able to answer questions about ongoing initiatives, architecture and systems, staffing situations, and priorities in details
• Have regular 1:1s and meaningful career conversations with your reports
• Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and are comfortable helping drive data incident resolution and deliver continuous improvement to team’s foundational goals
• Lead or contribute the efforts that help increase belonging on the team and beyond

Preferred Qualifications

Technical leadership: expertise in fullstack development and experience leading cross platform team(s), bonus if experienced in performance optimization / latency

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits