Remote Engineering Manager, Reliability Engineering

Summary

Join Airbnb's team as a highly skilled Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive the development of a long-term Reliability strategy and ensure the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb's infrastructure and products.

Requirements

• Proven track record of 2+ years in management and technical leadership, with a strong focus on Reliability Engineering
• Extensive prior experience in Reliability Engineering and Software Engineering disciplines as an individual contributor
• 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
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner within the organization
• Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards
• Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization as it continues its rapid growth. Assess how the organization manages incidents and responds to them; reduce operational toil stemming from incident management
• Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture that has a great sense of ownership over their services
• Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function, centered on optimizing the infrastructure and platform, and ensuring systems are highly available and performant
• Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability. Automate as much as possible and always configure as code. Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them. Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, etc.)
• Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling
• Build deep partnerships with engineering leaders. Work closely with product engineering teams on design and implementation choices of large-scale distributed systems
• Partner with the broader organization to learn from incidents through a blameless post mortem process
• Mentor and lead other Site Reliability Engineers. Uplevel and support others with servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship

Benefits

• Base pay range: $204,000 — $259,000 USD
• Bonus and equity eligible
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits