Tech Stack

Description

You will lead the Airbus Control Plane team, building and operating the systems that power Airbnb's data movement infrastructure. This includes developing the control plane for defining, orchestrating, and operating data pipelines reliably at scale, with broad impact across core product and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced technology environment.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems, databases, or large-scale infrastructure services.
• Experience designing and evolving systems intended to operate reliably over long time horizons.
• Experience scaling teams and contributing to organizational design in growing engineering organizations.
• Strong familiarity with at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and core infrastructure primitives such as compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, and security systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and product organizations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Tech Lead and team to define and execute the long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for the Airbus Control Plane.
• Guide architectural direction and stay engaged with key technical designs, serving as a thought partner and sounding board for engineers and tech leads.
• Synthesize complex technical topics and represent the team’s work, priorities, and tradeoffs to senior leadership and partner teams.
• Collaborate with Data Movement, Online Data, and Offline Data teams to ensure Airbus integrates seamlessly across Airbnb’s broader data ecosystem.
• Hire and develop exceptional engineers, providing mentorship, feedback, and career growth opportunities.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence and operational rigor, balancing thoughtful design with the ability to move fast responsibly.
• Represent Airbnb in open source communities and external partnerships to help shape the ecosystem around the technologies the team builds upon.