Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

Summary

Join Airbnb's Analytics Infrastructure team as an Engineering Manager and lead the development of a next-generation metrics and semantic querying platform. You will shape the team's vision and technical strategy, overseeing the creation of a scalable and reliable framework. 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 and modern software development practices. This US-remote eligible position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

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