Engineering Manager, Storage

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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts. The Difference You Will Make: As an engineering manager for the Control Plane team under Distributed Transactional Database org, you’ll lead a team of talented, diverse software engineers to build software to make database operations (deployment, cluster provisioning and restore, rolling restarts, configuration, scaling) reliable and automated, and to make the open-source database well-integrated with Airbnb’s Compute, Networking and Security infrastructure. A few examples of control plane services that the team owns: Orchestration logic that handles node lifecycles of database’s storage, compute, metadata management nodes. ( Blog link ) Operator that automates cluster provisioning, operations and restore. Configuration management that detects and auto-fixes unexpected configuration drifts. Open source DevX: Make open-source development and testing (image building/testing, CICD, load testing and performance certification) frictionless. Blue/green deployment and rollback strategy for major version upgrades. In the future, strives towards the direction of platformization, providing the correct constructs and semantics for customers to self-manage their databases and keep the org’s KTLO and toil factor manageable. Each manager brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these tech