Engineering Manager, Streaming Infrastructure
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Engineering Manager leading Airbnb’s Schema Management team and declarative data platform. Building trusted schemas for streaming, storage, warehouse, compliance, and AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Schema Management team within Airbnb’s Data Movement & Transformation organization
- Build schema management that validates and propagates changes end to end across streaming, storage, and warehouse systems
- Make AirSchema the single source of truth for Airbnb’s declarative data movement platform and drive adoption across engineering teams
- Establish compatibility, validation, and rollout standards for safe schema evolution
- Provide schema-level foundations including annotations, lineage, and access controls for compliance and trusted data use
- Support AI and agent platforms with well-defined and well-documented schemas
- Build self-serve tools, including AI-assisted debugging and operations
- Attract and hire talent, mentor engineers, and manage careers and promotions
- Review designs and roadmap tradeoffs with the tech lead
- Conduct 1:1s and coach engineers on growth, performance, and promotion
- Triage issues and requests from teams adopting AirSchema and the Schema Registry
- Coordinate with Data Frameworks, Ingestion, Realtime Data Infrastructure, UDS, and other partner teams
- Interview candidates and plan headcount
Requirements:
- 3+ years of engineering management experience
- 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience in a fast-paced environment
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally data platforms, storage, or streaming infrastructure
- Familiarity with schema and data contract systems, including schema registries, Avro or Protobuf, and compatibility and evolution strategies
- Familiarity with at least one adjacent area: Kafka or similar distributed logs; stream or batch processing such as Flink or Spark; CDC and database replication; or control planes and Kubernetes operators
- Track record of leading large migrations or platform consolidations, including adoption by other teams and safe retirement of legacy systems
- Strong production ownership, including on-call, incident response, root cause analysis, and designing for availability
- Experience scaling a team through hiring, onboarding, career development, and organizational design
- Strong judgment on short-term delivery versus long-term maintainability
- Excellent communication and ability to influence across teams and explain tradeoffs to infrastructure engineers and product or data teams
- Strong collaboration skills in a remote working environment
- Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
Benefits:
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits eligibility
- Employee Travel Credits
- Remote-eligible work arrangement
- Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager
- Disability accommodations throughout the recruitment process
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