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Engineering Manager, Control Plane – Distributed Transactional Database

Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerOtherRemoteSeniorTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2007H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

98 days ago

Salary

$204K - $255K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureGCPKubernetes

Job Description

Engineering Manager, Control Plane – Distributed Transactional Database

Airbnb

• 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.

Job Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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