Airbnb Senior Engineering Manager Viaduct 

United States 

186481680

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, technical strategy & roadmap. You will help deliver industry leading solutions that scale with the needs of our production backend in partnership with other infrastructure and product teams at Airbnb.

A Typical Day:

• Be part of an impactful product infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices with GraphQL. Support the team in delivering solutions that balance developer experience, reliability, efficiency and quality at scale, while making this layer easy to use for developers building product features on top of Viaduct.
• Be conversant in systems design and architecture, reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions and technical direction for your team
• Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and senior ICs
• Partner with a broad range of cross-organizational stakeholders to determine the right strategy for collaboration and shared OKRs.
• Set clear expectations with the team regarding operational excellence and maintain a strong focus on execution to ensure the delivery of features and functionality with the predictability that the business can count on.
• Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 12+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment. You should have direct experience as an engineer working at a staff+ level.
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
• Expertise in leading teams in the backend distributed systems domain with a focus on multitenancy and performance
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.
• Able to effectively work with senior leadership in setting strategic 6+ month direction.
• Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior and staff engineers
• Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering

Offices: United States