Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

Summary

Join Airbnb's Analytics Infrastructure Team as an Engineering Manager and lead the next generation of metrics and semantic querying platforms. You will shape the team's vision, technical strategy, and roadmap, ensuring scalability with the business. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring a high-performing engineering team, making key technical decisions, and collaborating across the organization. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of team management experience, 10+ years of software development experience, and a strong background in data infrastructure. This US-based remote eligible position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Airbnb is committed to diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 10+ 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
• Experience with data infrastructure (storage, processing, orchestration) and/or data-driven application development
• Experience with modern software development practices
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with data modeling, database design, and SQL semantics

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits