• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and data pipelines that power media ingestion, processing, and serving at Airbnb scale • Build platform capabilities that enable ML/AI teams to trigger analysis workflows, store extracted metadata, and access media intelligence across product surfaces • Work closely with engineers from product teams across Airbnb, understanding their media needs and building self-serve solutions to address them • Continuously optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of existing media infrastructure • Stay current with industry trends in distributed systems, media processing, ML infrastructure, and workflow orchestration frameworks • Mentor and guide team members in their career development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth

• Partner with PM/Design/Data Science to clarify goals, requirements, constraints, and success metrics, and translate them into a sequenced technical plan. • Write or review technical designs, align tradeoffs, and coordinate dependencies with partner teams across regions. • Build production code and services with a high quality bar: testing, documentation, instrumentation, and performance/reliability considerations. • Run design and code reviews, advise engineers, and help drive consistent engineering standards across the team. • Own delivery: track execution risks, provide stakeholder updates, coordinate launches (including localization/market rollout), and monitor post-launch results to iterate quickly.

• Own technical vision and lead effort to architecture, prototype, build and launch solutions for international markets initiatives (market configuration, localization services, partner integrations, compliance-aware experiences, etc). • Lead complex, cross-team execution from design through launch, including team roadmap, technical direction, migration plans, rollout strategy, and long-term operability. • Drive engineering excellence through reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency. • Influence roadmaps and collaborate with stakeholders across regions, such as drives alignment, resolves tradeoffs, leads through ambiguity. • Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team.

• Code in a high-impact, deep-complexity domain. We value a deep-work culture and ensure you have protected focus time to solve hard problems. • Share knowledge and learn from your teammates through collaboration and pairing. • You will navigate ambiguity, taking abstract requirements and refining them into concrete technical roadmaps to improve platform reliability and capabilities. • Partner with our customers - the Viaduct tenant teams - to support their mission to ship an industry-leading user experience. • Contribute to the planning process that informs the strategy and roadmap for the Viaduct platform. • We value sustainable engineering practices. We share on-call responsibilities across a large team and prioritize long-term reliability fixes to minimize off-hours pages.