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
Your Expertise:
2+ years of engineering management experience, with 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)
Experience with Istio service mesh, k8s and cloud native technologies is a plus
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
Airbnb Cloud Infrastructure in the Media:
Zero-downtime Istio upgrades across thousands of pods/VMs – - 2025
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, , Edie Yang, .
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, , Jingming Guo
The Airbnb Tech Blog 2023, , Ying Zhu
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022, , Kevin Leimkuhler, Doug Jordan.
-2022
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2021, . Weibo He, Stephan Chan.