Description
You will join Airbnb's mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. As the first Network engineering lead in Airbnb's Brazil office, you will be responsible for bootstrapping and growing the networking team in our new San Paulo office.
Your primary focus will be on delivering an Airbnb network platform that is flexible, efficient, always available, and scales with the needs of the business. You will work closely with peers across Cloud Infra, Security, Reliability, and many other partner teams across the company to achieve this goal.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing meaningful input to technical designs and direct hands-on contributions to projects in the cloud networking space
- Growing, leading, and managing a small team of talented engineers
- Supporting your team's professional growth and maintaining high performance through mentorship and coaching
- Working with tech leads, peers, and partners to define and execute on a coherent vision and roadmap for Airbnb's cloud network infrastructure and related components
- Working with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services
- Building cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services
- Working with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services
- Nurturing a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
- Building strong partnership and alignment with teams across engineering
- Nurturing relationships with open source communities and external service partners
As a successful candidate, you will have a strong background in engineering management, with 2+ years of experience and 8+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced tech environment. You will also have experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their networking service offerings, as well as experience running large-scale networking systems and software (e.g. proxies, DNS, gateways).
Additionally, you will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with teams across the engineering organization (e.g. reliability, compute, security, etc.). You will also have strong problem-solving skills and experience leading teams on-call for production infrastructure.