Airbnb Engineering Manager Control Plane – Distributed Transactional Database 

United States 

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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