Engineering Manager, Storage SRE

2 weeks, 3 days ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Airbnb

Airbnb

Airbnb is the world's largest community-driven hospitality company, offering homes and experiences in 191 countries. It is an online marketplace connecting people to unique accommodations and experiences globally.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
5K-10K
Founded 2008

Description

  • Own the Storage SRE technical roadmap across a 12+ month horizon.
  • Lead and grow a team of engineers through mentorship, feedback, hiring, and career development.
  • Drive the generalization of cluster lifecycle, schema management, and observability tooling.
  • Partner with engineering teams as the primary expert on reliable database adoption at scale.
  • Establish and uphold operational excellence for on-call, incident response, backup, disaster recovery, and reliability improvements.
  • Collaborate with storage infrastructure and platform teams to keep tooling and observability aligned with the broader storage platform.
  • Improve the developer experience for engineers working with high-traffic transactional storage systems.
  • Drive performance, security, scalability, and availability initiatives across Airbnb’s database systems.
  • Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to engineers and senior leadership.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of relevant industry experience in database infrastructure, storage systems, or site reliability engineering.
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams.
  • Demonstrated success building high-performing teams through hiring, talent development, and team health management.
  • Strong technical foundation with the ability to partner on architecture decisions, roadmap tradeoffs, and delivery quality.
  • Proven ability to lead a team through a technology transition while maintaining operational rigor on existing systems.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production database operations.
  • Strong communicator who can navigate ambiguity and represent the team credibly to senior leadership.
  • Must live in a US state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity; the role is remote eligible with occasional office or offsite visits.
  • Experience with distributed database technologies or storage platform evolution is preferred.

Benefits

  • US-remote eligible position.
  • Occasional Airbnb office or offsite attendance, as agreed with your manager.
  • Base salary range of $212,000 to $265,000 USD.
  • Eligible for bonus.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Eligible for benefits.
  • Eligible for Employee Travel Credits.
  • Accommodation support for candidates with disabilities during the application and interview process.

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