Tech Stack

Description

As an Engineering Manager on Airbnb's Cloud Networking team, you will lead and grow a team of engineers responsible for designing, building, and operating the production network infrastructure that connects Airbnb users and services. You will work on critical systems like traffic proxy, service mesh, and edge security, while also establishing the networking team in the new São Paulo office.

Requirements

• Professional fluency in English required
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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