Role Description The Community You Will Join: - Own the Storage SRE technical roadmap across a 12+ month horizon, setting the direction for how the team deepens its operational model as it takes on new database technologies alongside its existing systems. - Lead and grow a team of engineers by providing mentorship, timely feedback, and career development support to build a high-performing, inclusive team. - Drive the generalization of cluster lifecycle, schema management, and observability tooling as the team broadens its database technology support. - Partner with engineering teams across Airbnb as the primary expert on reliable database adoption, helping them work with mission-critical storage systems safely and efficiently at scale. - Establish and uphold operational excellence standards covering on-call strategy, incident response, backup and disaster recovery, and systemic reliability improvements. - Collaborate with storage infrastructure and platform teams to ensure Storage SRE’s tooling and observability stay current as the broader storage platform evolves. - Improve the developer experience for engineers working with high-traffic transactional storage systems. - Drive performance, security, scalability, and availability initiatives across Airbnb’s database systems. - Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to engineers and senior leadership. Qualifications - 9+ years of relevant industry experience in database infrastructure, storage systems, or site reliability engineering. - 3+ years of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams. - Demonstrated track record of building high-performing teams by hiring strong engineers, developing talent, and maintaining team health through periods of change. - Strong technical foundation with the ability to partner with technical leads on architectural decisions, roadmap tradeoffs, and delivery quality. - Proven ability to lead a team through a technology transition while maintaining operational rigor on existing systems. - Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production database operations. - Strong communicator able to cut through ambiguity and represent the team credibly to senior leadership. Requirements - 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. 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. - Pay Range: $212,000 — $265,000 USD. Company Description Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

• Reliability Leadership: Lead the technical planning of operations initiatives, ensuring that resilience and scalability are core requirements from solution design. • Platform Engineering (Self-Service): Act as an enabler for technology teams by creating abstractions and automations that remove obstacles in deployment and infrastructure management, enabling smooth, low-friction operations. • Go beyond day-to-day operations by identifying repetitive tasks and turning them into robust automations so the Ops team can focus on high-value work. • Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Rethink legacy operational processes, introducing improvements (even small script or workflow changes) that bring predictability and safety to the production environment. • Incident Response Lead: Serve as the technical escalation point in complex crises, leading resolution efforts and, importantly, conducting root cause analysis to prevent recurrence. • Review proposed changes and architectures, ensuring they meet the company's security, cost (FinOps), and operational excellence standards. • Mentorship and SRE Culture: Be a catalyst for SRE culture within Operations, raising the team's technical level and promoting knowledge-sharing about distributed systems.

• Build small to medium-sized infrastructure components using Terraform and AWS. • Ensure reliable build-and-deploy cycles by maintaining and debugging CI/CD workflows, including GitHub Actions and ArgoCD. • Learn to troubleshoot and resolve issues in containerized environments, including Kubernetes pods and EKS networking bottlenecks. • Leverage GenAI and AI code assistants to accelerate your onboarding and complete well-defined automation tasks. • Validate AI-generated code for correctness and style according to team standards. • Contribute to system reliability by participating in the on-call rotation and swiftly responding to system alerts. • Utilize logging and observability tools (Datadog, Observe) to efficiently gather information during troubleshooting. • Own the quality of your work by testing and documenting your code, ensuring bug fixes are implemented reliably across all environments (dev, staging, production). • Engage actively in team ceremonies, including sprint planning and daily standups. • Clearly communicate project status and implementation details to the broader team. • Partner with senior engineers to understand and maximize the business and customer impact of your work.

• Design, develop, and implement AWS cloud architecture leveraging services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB/ALB, EKS, and other AWS-native services, with a focus on scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery. • Provision and manage AWS resources, including compute, storage, networking, and databases, using the AWS Management Console, CLI, and infrastructure-as-code tools. • Develop and maintain automated deployment and provisioning of solutions using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. • Implement and enforce cloud security best practices, including IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, network segmentation, logging, and compliance with applicable regulatory standards. • Monitor cloud environments for performance, availability, and cost optimization using AWS monitoring and alerting tools; proactively troubleshoot and resolve issues. • Integrate cloud infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines to streamline application builds and deployments, leveraging GitHub Actions. • Collaborate closely with development teams to understand application requirements and translate them into efficient, secure AWS-based solutions. • Manage application deployments and releases with minimal downtime, using containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (EKS).