Lead and grow a high-performing team responsible for designing, implementing, and operating distributed orchestration infrastructure that runs tens of thousands of data workflows daily.
Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for orchestration, aligning to Airbnb’s broader Data Infrastructure and Analytics platform strategy.
Drive adoption of best-in-class workflow paradigms and tooling across data engineering, reliability, and ML teams, ensuring consistency, performance, and operational excellence.
Partner closely with cross-functional teams in Data Platform, Compute, Storage, Analytics, and ML Infrastructure to integrate orchestration capabilities into wider data ecosystems.
Coach and mentor engineers, enabling strong technical judgment, clarity of thinking, and ownership across the team.

Requirements

5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing and scaling distributed systems teams.
Strong technical background in distributed systems, workflow orchestration engines, scheduling systems, or data infrastructure tooling.
Previous working experience in large scale orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, Flyte, Prefect, Kubeflow, Maestro or similar platforms, and understanding of challenges around scaling, observability, and multi-tenancy.
Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices.
A track record of partnering across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality infrastructure at scale.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in synthesizing complex technical concepts for broad audiences.

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 systemsworkflow orchestration enginesscheduling systemsdata infrastructure toolingApache AirflowDagsterFlytePrefectKubeflowMaestro

Soft Skills

engineering leadershipcoachingmentoringtechnical judgmentclarity of thinkingownershipcommunication skillssynthesizing complex concepts