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Engineering Manager, Storage SRE
Location
United States
Posted
22 days ago
Salary
$212K - $265K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Engineering Manager, Storage SRE
Airbnb
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.
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