Senior Engineering Manager, Media Foundation

🕒 5 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $248k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Lead a team building and operating Airbnb’s media infrastructure for photo, video, and document interactions. • Set technical strategy and architecture for media infrastructure across multiple teams. • Shape the team’s vision and steer the organization toward larger goals. • Oversee day-to-day operations, technical deep dives, internal engineering community engagement, and strategic planning. • Own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Airbnb’s media systems. • Lead, coach, and grow managers and senior technical leads. • Partner with Product, Design, Trust, and infrastructure organizations on the media platform roadmap. • Champion engineering excellence and operational rigor. • Resolve systemic technical debt affecting reliability, performance, or velocity. • Retain, grow, and hire a diverse team of engineers and managers.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of industry experience. • Minimum 6+ years of engineering management experience, including managing other managers or senior technical leads. • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. • Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems. • Track record of setting technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams. • Media/content infrastructure experience in ingestion, processing, storage, or CDN delivery is a strong plus. • Strong product instinct and communication skills. • Experience influencing senior cross-functional and cross-organizational partners. • Track record of leading and shipping large, cross-team initiatives with significant business impact. • Experience building cultures of operational excellence, quality, and reliability. • Sound judgment balancing short-term business needs with long-term technical and organizational health. • Flexible leadership style suited to varying team maturity. • Ability to identify, retain, grow, and acquire engineering and management talent. • Commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within teams. • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Health and other benefits • Employee Travel Credits • Remote work eligibility • Occasional office work or attendance at offsites • Disability-inclusive application and interview process • Reasonable accommodation during recruiting