Senior Engineering Manager - Reliability Engineering

The Community You Will Join: 

Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer Manager to join their Reliability Engineering team. The Senior Engineering Manager is a key member of the technical team who will help facilitate a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business. They will be responsible for driving the continued development of a long-term Reliability strategy and for ensuring the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb’s infrastructure and products. Additionally, they will work closely with engineering teams to provide tools, processes, and expertise to make services easy to operate and as reliable as possible.  

A Typical Day: 

• Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture that has a great sense of ownership over their services. 

• Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function, centered on optimizing the infrastructure and platform, and ensuring systems are highly available and performant.  

• Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability.

• Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling. 

• Build deep partnerships with oither engineering leaders, and work closely with product engineering teams on design/implementation choices of large-scale distributed systems. 

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, 6+ years of which in a Managerial capacity, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations.

• Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.