Senior Engineering Manager Metrics Infrastructure jobs at Airbnb

A Typical Day:

As a Senior iOS Engineer on Core Foundation, you will:

• Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that compliment product engineers’ day to day flows.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality pull requests and reviewing other’s pull requests.
• Build thorough tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create architecture design documents for new projects and review other’s design documents.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Your Expertise :

We’re looking for a Senior iOS Software Engineer with passion for making the client experience performant through foundational paved path, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years industry experience.
• Fluency in Swift and experience with SwiftUI or other declarative UI building frameworks.
• Experience building codegen tools, codemods, and lint rules.
• Deep understanding of iOS core libraries.
• Expertise of client and environmental performance considerations.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team which touches many parts of core systems at Airbnb.

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

As part of our team, you'll build the essential AI/ML data foundations powering all AI/ML use cases across Airbnb—spanning Trust & Safety, Payments, Customer Support, Marketing, Search Ranking, and more. You’ll define and implement industry-leading best practices, pipelines, and tools to streamline data creation and consumption, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and compliance. Your contributions will significantly accelerate AI/ML innovation, enabling rapid development and deployment of high-quality, impactful AI/ML solutions company-wide. Additionally, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our cutting-edge Generative AI infrastructure, positioning .

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, automate, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using SparkSQL, Scala, and Airflow.
• Develop and optimize data models ensuring high-quality, consistent, and accurate data to support broad AI/ML product feature decisions.
• Collaborate closely with peer ML Infra teams to deliver automated data solutions driving AI/ML acceleration.
• Contribute to scalable GenAI infrastructure by leveraging foundational language and vision models to create high quality datasets that power cutting edge GenAI applications.
• Partner with key customer teams to deliver high-impact, high-quality datasets core to Airbnb's roadmap.
• Utilize leading open-source technologies including Spark, Airflow, Ray, MLFlow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (BS/Masters) or 2+ years with a PhD.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Java, or equivalent languages.
• Hands-on experience with distributed processing technologies (Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hadoop) and distributed storage (HDFS, S3).
• Solid knowledge of data warehousing concepts and databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse).
• Expertise building scalable ETL pipelines using schedulers like Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, or AWS Glue.
• Proven ability to analyze large datasets, identify insights, and drive impactful product solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable collaborating cross-functionally.
• Experience building end-to-end Machine Learning platforms and deploying ML models.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern infrastructure tools.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and engineering best practices.

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you'll architect and implement security solutions that protect millions of users while empowering thousands of developers. You'll be at the forefront of creating a security-first engineering culture, building tools and frameworks that make secure development the path of least resistance. We're building the next generation of security-first development tools and practices that will shape the future of secure software engineering.

A Typical Day:

Here are a few things you’ll do in this role:

• Lead the design, development, launch, and operation of scalable and reusable solutions that address systemic security issues across teams, showcasing your leadership and expertise.
• Drive technical security innovation by developing new coding standards for the team and organization, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide input and influence architectural decisions to ensure security, scalability, quality and resilience in major product features and platform services.
• Take a hands-on role in designing and implementing secure software.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers to build performant, developer-friendly solutions that integrate security into developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.
• Support secure development strategies, tooling, and product-specific security features with engineering teams to help detect and prevent diverse security issues.
• Build and maintain automation frameworks to validate deployed software against security requirements.

Your Expertise:

The following are some examples of profiles that are relevant to us. If a subset of these applies to you, please consider applying. We are looking to build a team of both security experience and software engineering generalists.

• 5+ years of software development in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Golang, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure software systems.
• Thorough understanding of secure development methodologies and best practices.
• Experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and contributing to open-source tools.
• Experience with static and/or dynamic analysis.
• Experience building secure-by-default libraries or frameworks.
• Experience securing cloud infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
• Experience with mobile or web application security is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform and HCL is a plus.
• Experience building developer tools and infrastructure is a plus.

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

• Establish the vision for a suite of AI/ML products based on the value we can provide
• Develop the product roadmap and build consensus on prioritization which drives product execution
• Challenge the status quo and inspire people toward a unified outcome
• Define goals and success with clearly measurable objectives and key results
• Efficiently execute to ship products and deliver impact for our business and users
• Communicate concisely and influence outcomes
• Build alignment across product teams, cross-functional partners (FP&A, Marketing, Operations, Customer Experience, Trust, etc.) and Leadership/Executive team
• Drive product development with a world-class team of Engineers, Data Scientists and Operations Leads and Policy Experts
• Prioritize work based on inputs from many stakeholders, while being flexible to iterate/change
• Evaluate new product opportunities and bring forward proposals (buy, build, partner solutions) for new capabilities with data and users at the forefront

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of product management experience
• 2+ years of building AI/ML products or technical product management
• Prior product, operation, or engineering experience working in Security, Trust, Safety, or Fraud
• Ability to carefully trade-off fraud prevention and impact to good users
• Radical thinking paired with strong execution. Can envision a world different than the status quo with the ability to articulate a clear path to get there
• Strong cross-customer collaboration: harmonizes strategies and needs of multiple customers; influences customer strategy and plans
• Outstanding written and verbal communication ability to a diverse stakeholder audience, including a global team of C-level executives, product, and technical stakeholders
• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Innate capability to, directly and indirectly, lead teams through success

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

• Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that compliment product engineers’ day to day flows.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality pull requests and reviewing other’s pull requests.
• Build thorough tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create architecture design documents for new projects and review other’s design documents.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Your Expertise:

We’re looking for an Senior Frontend Engineer with passion for making the desktop and mobile web fast and easy to develop on, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' industry experience in Web Client / Product Foundation focuses.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...)
• Deep expertise of client-side and server-side performance considerations and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience with improving architecture and developer tooling/libraries of a high traffic website
• Strong collaboration with partner teams in a remote environment
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of data structures and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth

Offices: United States

The Community You Will Join:

Our Payments product organization has 2 domains:

• Payments and Commerce Platform - facilitating money movement and exchange of value while also fueling growth for our business
• Payments Risk and Compliance - ensuring safe and efficient payment processing

A Typical Day:

• Champion the vision for a world-class guest payins experience and processing on the Payments Platform
• Shape and execute a thoughtful, multi-year roadmap to make paying as seamless and delightful as staying at an Airbnb
• Partner closely with talented teammates across Engineering, Operations, Analytics, Partnerships, Treasury, Finance, Platform, Product Marketing, and UX Design, aligning on goals and turning big ideas into reality
• Craft clear product narratives, user stories, and requirements that keep teams inspired and focused
• Launch experiments, define meaningful success metrics, and plan smooth rollouts that scale
• Define, monitor and analyze KPIs that inform payment success & health
• Lead the way in integrating partner products and services that elevate what platform intelligence and efficiency
• Collaborate to build actionable playbooks for solving guest payment challenges and supporting our global community
• Stay curious and connected to the latest in payments, bringing fresh ideas, best practices, and innovations to Airbnb

Your Expertise:

• 7+ years of product management experience, launching new payment methods or partner integrations across the payments ecosystem (including gateways, PSPs, networks, issuers, and acquirers)
• Deep platform payments product management know-how, building flexible products that empower a range of business customers
• Framework oriented thinker
• Hands-on collaboration with engineers, developing use cases, building inspiring narratives, prioritizing features, and making thoughtful trade-offs between short-term and long-term bets
• Proven ability to lead through influence, working cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, finance, compliance, legal, and business partners
• Clear, compelling storyteller, confident sharing both the “why” behind your vision and digging into the details when needed
• Strong decision-making chops: skilled at prioritizing and navigating resource constraints to deliver maximum impact
• Comfortable in a startup-like environment, embracing pace, change, and ambiguity with positivity and resilience
• Highly data-driven, with robust analytical skills and a passion for using insights to drive great outcomes

Domain Experience:

• Transaction Processing: Deep experience with real-time and batch processing, payment routing, and failover strategies across global PSPs
• Transaction Orchestration: Experience managing Cardholder Initiated Transactions (CIT), Merchant Initiated Transactions (MIT), incremental/capture flows, partial authorizations, and scheduled billing and smart retries
• Payment Retry & Optimization: Implementing intelligent retry logic, dynamic routing, and decline code analysis to maximize acceptance rates
• Authentication: Experience implementing SCA and 3DS2
• Partner tools: Experience leveraging network tools (e.g. Network Tokens, Account Updater) and PSP capabilities to drive approvals
• Alternative Payment Methods: Integrating global/local payment rails (e.g., digital wallets, open banking, instant payments)
• Settlement & Reconciliation: Experience with multi-currency settlement, reconciliation workflows, and chargeback handling
• Payment UX: experience optimizing multi-device, multi-currency payment flows a plus
• Knowledge and experience using collaborative tools and techniques of the trade (e.g. Airtable, SQL, Google Docs, Scrum, Agile, Figma, Invision)

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

A few examples of control plane services that the team owns:

• Orchestration logic that handles node lifecycles of database’s storage, compute, metadata management nodes. )
• Operator that automates cluster provisioning, operations and restore.
• Configuration management that detects and auto-fixes unexpected configuration drifts.
• Open source DevX: Make open-source development and testing (image building/testing, CICD, load testing and performance certification) frictionless.
• Blue/green deployment and rollback strategy for major version upgrades.
• In the future, strives towards the direction of platformization, providing the correct constructs and semantics for customers to self-manage their databases and keep the org’s KTLO and toil factor manageable.

A Typical Day:

• 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.

Your Expertise:

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 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.

Offices: United States