Drive the technical vision and execution for our KV stores and caching infrastructure.
Mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and ensure the team delivers high-impact solutions.
Define the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure at Airbnb.
Evolve our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases.
Build a multi-tenant caching solution for Airbnb.
Guide the rearchitecture of our KV write path to remove infrastructure complexity while improving replication lag.
Oversee frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant industry experience
Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.

Benefits

This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsmulti-tenant storagecaching infrastructureKV storeshigh-performance systemssystem-of-record use casesdata migration frameworksreplication lag managementarchitectural decision-makingtechnical roadmap development

Soft Skills

mentoringleadershipcollaborationinfluencejudgment on technical trade-offsdecision-makingteam alignmentcareer developmentcommunicationproblem-solving