The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Data Infrastructure builds the batch, streaming, and real-time data and: feature platforms, semantic metrics layer, and query engines that power analytics, experimentation, and ML, and is making the data stack AI-ready and cost-efficient at scale.
Reliability Engineering provides the observability, alerting, incident: response, and deployment-safety platforms (progressive delivery and automated rollback) that keep Airbnb highly available and resilient.
Developer Experience scales the end-to-end developer workflow, including: source control, CI, build, code review, deployment, and cloud development environments, so engineers and AI agents can ship quality software quickly and safely.
Shape and influence the technical direction of projects, ensuring we meet: stakeholder needs while maintaining high-quality standards.
Drive phased rollouts and large-scale platform migrations, from pilot through: adoption to deprecation, with clear exit criteria and minimal disruption to product teams.
Balance broad, outcome-driven thinking with attention to critical details,: exercising sound judgment to prioritize where deep focus is necessary to ensure successful execution.
What they're looking for
- Define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success: criteria, such as availability and SLOs, CI and merge latency, cost per workload, and adoption, and hold programs accountable to them.
- Regularly assess risks and opportunities, and devise proactive mitigation: strategies to maintain momentum and project success.
- Maintain transparent and effective communication channels to keep: stakeholders informed of progress, developments, and challenges.
- Expertly present outcomes and updates to senior leadership, clearly and: comprehensively articulating trade-offs, risks, and emerging opportunities.
