The Community You Will Join:

Viaduct is a unified data access layer and platform connecting a larger percentage of Airbnb’s online data. 400+ tenants account for~65% of Airbnb’s online traffic and products which flow through the Viaduct infrastructure service. Residing at the center of Airbnb’s tech stack between the user-facing products and backend infrastructure, Viaduct provides a global schema & query system through a GraphQL interface. The Viaduct team is one of the most tenured and experienced teams in the company, setting the best practices and next-gen architecture for Airbnb. We work closely with infrastructure teams (Build Infra, Service Platform, CI/CD, Reliability, Observability, Developer Experience to name a few) as well as product engineers who are our customers.

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

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.