Engineering Manager, Workflow Orchestration

2 hours, 48 minutes 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

  • Lead and grow a team that designs, implements, and operates distributed orchestration infrastructure for high-volume data workflows.
  • Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for workflow orchestration within Airbnb’s Data Infrastructure and Analytics strategy.
  • Drive adoption of workflow paradigms and tooling across data engineering, reliability, and ML teams.
  • Partner with Data Platform, Compute, Storage, Analytics, and ML Infrastructure teams to integrate orchestration capabilities across the broader ecosystem.
  • Coach and mentor engineers to strengthen technical judgment, ownership, and team performance.
  • Collaborate with senior engineering leaders on multi-year strategy for orchestration and execution platforms.
  • Review architectural designs and help unblock technical challenges.
  • Work with product and engineering leaders to prioritize investments across reliability, developer experience, and cost.
  • Ensure strong delivery discipline, operational monitoring, and on-call readiness for critical infrastructure.
  • Recruit engineering talent and support career growth with inclusive leadership and psychological safety.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing and scaling distributed systems teams.
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, workflow orchestration engines, scheduling systems, or data infrastructure tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, Flyte, Prefect, Kubeflow, Maestro, or similar platforms.
  • Understanding of scaling, observability, and multi-tenancy challenges in orchestration systems.
  • Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices.
  • Proven track record of partnering across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable infrastructure at scale.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to broad audiences.
  • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity for this US remote-eligible role.
  • Occasional work from an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites may be required.
  • Preferred compensation package includes eligibility for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Benefits

  • US remote-eligible role with occasional office or offsite attendance as needed.
  • Base salary range of $212,000 to $265,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for bonus compensation.
  • Eligibility for equity.
  • Eligibility for benefits.
  • Employee Travel Credits.

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