Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Airbnb's Viaduct team as a Senior Engineering Manager and shape the vision, technical strategy, and roadmap for this unified data access layer. You will deliver scalable solutions, partner with various teams, and lead a high-performing engineering team. This role requires extensive experience in managing software engineers and expertise in backend distributed systems. The position is US-remote eligible, with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 12+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Direct experience as an engineer working at a staff+ level
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
• Expertise in leading teams in the backend distributed systems domain with a focus on multitenancy and performance
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
• Able to effectively work with senior leadership in setting strategic 6+ month direction
• 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

Responsibilities

• Shape the vision, technical strategy & roadmap
• Deliver industry leading solutions that scale with the needs of our production backend in partnership with other infrastructure and product teams at Airbnb
• Be part of an impactful product infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices with GraphQL
• Support the team in delivering solutions that balance developer experience, reliability, efficiency and quality at scale, while making this layer easy to use for developers building product features on top of Viaduct
• Be conversant in systems design and architecture, reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions and technical direction for your team
• Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and senior ICs
• Partner with a broad range of cross-organizational stakeholders to determine the right strategy for collaboration and shared OKRs
• Set clear expectations with the team regarding operational excellence and maintain a strong focus on execution to ensure the delivery of features and functionality with the predictability that the business can count on
• Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers
• Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits