Published: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:50:53 GMT
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Position: Senior Engineering Manager
Company: Airbnb
Location: US – Remote Eligible
Salary Range: $244,000 – $320,000 per year
About the Company:
Airbnb is a global community marketplace that offers unique stays and experiences, allowing guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. Since its founding in 2007, Airbnb has grown to over 5 million hosts and has welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.
The Role:
As a Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb, you will join the Auth Infrastructure team, responsible for building the infrastructure around Airbnb’s Authentication and Authorization systems. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical vision, strategy, and execution for these critical platforms, as well as leading and managing two distinct engineering teams focused on user authentication and authorization.
Key Responsibilities:
– Define and drive the technical roadmap and strategy for Airbnb’s authentication and authorization infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business goals and security and reliability best practices.
– Lead and manage two distinct engineering teams responsible for user authentication and authorization.
– Mentor and develop a high performing team of engineers and managers, providing guidance, feedback, and opportunities for growth.
– Collaborate effectively with senior engineers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver impactful solutions.
– Sustain efficient operations and lead incident response for critical systems.
– Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in authentication, authorization, and security and proactively help the team in adopting best practices.
– Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent.
– Work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Requirements:
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
– 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong track record of building and operating high-scale, distributed systems.
– 7+ years of experience in an engineering management role, leading and growing multiple engineering teams, and managing managers.
– Experience in developing long-term strategy in building secure, fault-tolerant, and reliable authentication and authorization systems at scale.
– Strong technical proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Ruby).
– Experience working with cloud platforms (preferably AWS, K8s) and related infrastructure.
– Experience with incident management and root cause analysis for critical, high-availability systems.
– Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
– Proven ability to attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent.
– Experience working in a fast-paced, agile environment.
Bonus Points:
– Deep understanding of authentication and authorization principles and technologies, such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control), and related security protocols.
– Contributions to the engineering community across the industry in the security or identity management space.
– Experience working in a consumer-driven tech company with a large user base.
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.
Inclusion & Belonging:
At Airbnb, we are 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 also strive to 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.
Benefits:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range: $244,000 – $320,000 USD per year Apply link
