Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

Airbnb connects guests with hosts offering unique stays and experiences across the globe, founded in 2007 and grown to serve over 1 billion guest arrivals.
$244,000 - $304,000
Data
Staff Software Engineer
Remote
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
10+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Travel

Description For Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Metrics Infrastructure team, a crucial component of their Analytics Infrastructure division. This role combines technical leadership with people management, requiring 10+ years of software development experience and 5+ years of team management. The position focuses on building and maintaining the next generation metrics and semantic querying platform that powers Airbnb's data-driven decision-making processes.

The role involves leading a team that manages critical products like Apache Superset and Airbnb's in-house metric system, serving over 2500 weekly active users. Key responsibilities include extending frameworks for semantic data modeling, optimizing materialized views, and improving developer workflows. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in data infrastructure, technical leadership, and team management.

Working remotely within the US, you'll be responsible for shaping technical strategy while ensuring your team delivers robust, scalable solutions. The position offers competitive compensation ($244,000 - $304,000) and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge data infrastructure technologies. You'll collaborate across organizations, from data infrastructure teams to end users, while contributing to Airbnb's engineering culture.

This role is perfect for someone who combines technical expertise with leadership skills, has a strong background in data systems, and is passionate about building tools that enable data-driven decision-making at scale. You'll be joining a company that values inclusion and diversity, offering the chance to impact how one of the world's leading travel platforms makes data-informed decisions.

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Responsibilities For Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

  • Shape vision, technical strategy and roadmap for metrics and semantic querying platform
  • Lead team in delivering framework for reliability, efficiency and correctness at scale
  • Retain, grow and hire high-performing engineers
  • Manage and mentor engineering team
  • Own and defend technical decisions for the team
  • Work across organization with dependencies and customers
  • Empower team to achieve high productivity, reliability and simplicity
  • Stay current on industry trends and participate in defining engineering culture

Requirements For Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

  • 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers
  • 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience
  • BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
  • Experience with data infrastructure and data-driven application development
  • Experience with modern software development practices
  • Experience with data modeling, database design, and SQL semantics
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior and staff engineers

Benefits For Senior Engineering Manager, Metrics Infrastructure

Equity
  • Employee Travel Credits

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