Engineering Manager, Data Frameworks
Airbnb
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $204,000 - $255,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
ApacheDistributed SystemsElasticSearchGraphQLKafkaSpark
About the role
- Lead a team of software engineers building core data platform capabilities that power application-level use cases across Airbnb
- Define and execute on a multi-year vision to unify how derived data is produced, consumed, and served in online contexts
- Evolve and scale a suite of services, APIs, and data models central to application and ML infrastructure
- Partner with engineering and product teams to standardize entity-based access patterns, improve data reliability, and reduce integration overhead
- Drive adoption of platform capabilities by collaborating with partner teams to deeply understand use cases and deliver intuitive solutions
- Build and grow a healthy, high-performing team emphasizing product thinking, technical depth, and developer empathy
- Collaborate with Staff+ engineers, TPMs, and cross-functional stakeholders to define team strategy and execution plans
- Review and provide feedback on technical designs related to system and API design, and serving patterns
- Support the team in operational excellence, reliability, and continuous improvement of core systems
- Mentor team members, provide coaching and career development, and foster a culture of curiosity and ownership
- Represent the team in broader planning forums, driving alignment and contributing to org-wide platform strategy
Requirements
- 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience with at least 3-5+ years of managing an engineering team
- BS or MS in Computer Science or relevant field
- Experience leading software engineering teams building developer-facing platforms or data-intensive systems
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, application-layer APIs, and event-driven architectures
- Proficiency with technologies such as Apache Kafka, GraphQL, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Materialized views and data serving layers, Opensearch, Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with building ML-aware data pipelines or data products that support personalization, trust, or search applications
- Strong product and stakeholder instincts and ability to balance long-term vision with near-term delivery
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Passion for mentoring engineers and scaling healthy team culture
- Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (US work-location requirement).