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The Distributed Transactional Database team within Airbnb’s Online Data is responsible for building and operating a new source-of-truth, horizontally scalable, open-source NewSql database as the unified backend for all of Airbnb’s Online Data workloads. With users around the world, scalability, reliability, efficiency, usability and long-term platform viability are our team’s core missions.
Job Responsibility:
Lead a team of talented, diverse software engineers to build software to make database operations (deployment, cluster provisioning and restore, rolling restarts, configuration, scaling) reliable and automated
Make the open-source database well-integrated with Airbnb’s Compute, Networking and Security infrastructure
Work with TL and team to define and execute on a vision and 3-year roadmap for the control plane area
Stay in touch with technical designs and decisions, be the sounding board
Synthesize technical information and represent the team with upper management
Align with ORM and SRE teams in Online Data on each team’s charter and how each team’s core capabilities fit together
Attract top talent, mentor individual contributors and manage their promotions and career
Nurture a culture of rigor and responsibly “moving fast” from design, through code review, to production
Represent Airbnb with open source communities and external alliance partners
Requirements:
3+ years of engineering management experience
6+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment
Experience with building and operating distributed databases and services that are long-term and evolvable
Experience in organization design for a team that is scaling up
Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Storage, VM, networking, Kubernetes, Security offerings
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization