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Engineering Manager, Storage

United States 204000.00 - 255000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 19, 2026
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The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts. As an engineering manager for the Control Plane team under Distributed Transactional Database org, you’ll 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, and to make the open-source database well-integrated with Airbnb’s Compute, Networking and Security infrastructure.

Job Responsibility

  • Lead a team of talented, diverse software engineers to build software to make database operations 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

What we offer

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
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