Engineering Manager, Storage SRE

The Community You Will Join

Airbnb’s Storage SRE team owns the “how do you reliably run and operate databases at scale” problem. The team is at the heart of Airbnb’s online data systems, building tooling, workflows, and automation to ensure mission-critical data services are reliable, secure, and performant.

Responsibilities

• Own the Storage SRE technical roadmap across a 12+ month horizon, setting the direction for how the team deepens its operational model as it takes on new database technologies alongside its existing systems
• Lead and grow a team of engineers by providing mentorship, timely feedback, and career development support to build a high-performing, inclusive team
• Drive the generalization of cluster lifecycle, schema management, and observability tooling as the team broadens its database technology support
• Partner with engineering teams across Airbnb as the primary expert on reliable database adoption, helping them work with mission-critical storage systems safely and efficiently at scale
• Establish and uphold operational excellence standards covering on-call strategy, incident response, backup and disaster recovery, and systemic reliability improvements
• Collaborate with storage infrastructure and platform teams to ensure Storage SRE’s tooling and observability stay current as the broader storage platform evolves
• Improve the developer experience for engineers working with high-traffic transactional storage systems
• Drive performance, security, scalability, and availability initiatives across Airbnb’s database systems
• Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to engineers and senior leadership

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience in database infrastructure, storage systems, or site reliability engineering
• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams
• Demonstrated track record of building high-performing teams by hiring strong engineers, developing talent, and maintaining team health through periods of change
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to partner with technical leads on architectural decisions, roadmap tradeoffs, and delivery quality
• Prominent understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production database operations
• Strong communicator able to cut through ambiguity and represent the team credibly to senior leadership

Qualifications

• US - Remote Eligible
• Live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity