Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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.

The Community You Will Join: 

The Analytics Infrastructure Team's mission is to empower data-driven decision-making across the company through robust, scalable, and innovative analytics products. We build and maintain the libraries, frameworks, and visualization tools that enable our data scientists, analysts, and engineers to derive insights and drive impact. Our team embraces a collaborative environment where engineers, data scientists, and product specialists work together to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality solutions. 

We manage products like Apache Superset (BI tool currently used by over 2500 weekly active users), Airbnb’s in-house build Metric system which enables metric consistency at scale, and the Experimentation platform, which enables safe product launches and deep insights into product features.

The Difference You Will Make:

As an Engineering Manager on the Metrics Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, technical strategy / roadmap and for delivering a next generation metrics and semantic querying platform that scales with our business. You will lead the team towards unlocking new capabilities essential to Airbnb’s future strategy. Some example problems the team is working on:

• Extending our framework for semantically modeling data to enable simplified discovery and querying, while ensuring accuracy and performance.
• Automatically generating materialized views of data based on query history, performance and cost.
• Improving developer workflows to enable rapid prototyping and graduation of new metrics and dimensions.

A Typical Day: 

• Support the team in delivering a framework which ensures reliability, efficiency and correctness at scale, while making it for producers and consumers to use.
• Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture.
• Be conversant in systems design/architecture, can reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team
• Work across the organization, partnering with both upstream dependencies (e.g. data infrastructure), and customers.
• Empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Stays current on leading industry trends and participates in defining the company’s engineering culture.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment. You should have direct experience as an engineer working at a staff+ level.
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
• Experience with data infrastructure (storage, processing, orchestration) and/or data-driven application development.
• Experience with modern software development practices
• Experience with data modeling, database design, and SQL semantics is a huge plus.
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading highly technical and senior teams and setting technical direction and strategy.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.
• Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior and staff engineers
• Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering

Your Location:

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.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.