Engineering Manager, Cloud Networking

• Provide meaningful input to technical designs and direct hands-on contributions to projects in the cloud networking space
• Grow, lead, and manage a small team of talented engineers
• Support your team's professional growth and maintain high performance through mentorship and coaching
• Work with tech leads, peers, and partners to define and execute on a coherent vision and roadmap for Airbnb’s cloud network infrastructure and related components
• Work with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services
• Build cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services
• Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
• Build strong partnership and alignment with teams across engineering
• Nurture relationships with open source communities and external service partners

• Professional fluency in English required
• 2+ years of engineering management experience
• 8+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Strong emotional intelligence, empathy, and the ability to effectively connect with colleagues
• Experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their networking service offerings
• Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. proxies, DNS, gateways)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with teams across the engineering organization (e.g. reliability, compute, security, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience leading teams on-call for production infrastructure
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality

Experience with Istio service mesh, k8s and cloud native technologies is a plus