# Engineering Manager, Storage SRE

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Exact text if stated, empty string if not
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

The Storage SRE team at Airbnb owns the 'how do you reliably run and operate databases at scale' problem. The team is at the heart of Airbnb's online data systems, building tooling, workflows, and automation to ensure mission-critical data services are reliable, secure, and performant.

As an Engineering Manager, you will join a team that operates at genuine internet scale and has direct influence on the infrastructure decisions that power a global marketplace. You will be responsible for owning the Storage SRE technical roadmap across a 12+ month horizon, setting the direction for how the team deepens its operational model as it takes on new database technologies alongside its existing systems.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading and growing a team of engineers by providing mentorship, timely feedback, and career development support to build a high-performing, inclusive team

- Driving the generalization of cluster lifecycle, schema management, and observability tooling as the team broadens its database technology support

- Partnering with engineering teams across Airbnb as the primary expert on reliable database adoption, helping them work with mission-critical storage systems safely and efficiently at scale

- Establishing and upholding operational excellence standards covering on-call strategy, incident response, backup and disaster recovery, and systemic reliability improvements

We are looking for someone with 9+ years of relevant industry experience in database infrastructure, storage systems, or site reliability engineering, and 3+ years of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams.

**Requirements:**

- 9+ years of relevant industry experience in database infrastructure, storage systems, or site reliability engineering

- 3+ years of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams

- Demonstrated track record of building high-performing teams by hiring strong engineers, developing talent, and maintaining team health through periods of change

- Strong technical foundation with the ability to partner with technical leads on architectural decisions, roadmap tradeoffs, and delivery quality

- Proven ability to lead a team through a technology transition while maintaining operational rigor on existing systems

- Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production database operations

- Strong communicator able to cut through ambiguity and represent the team credibly to senior leadership

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with distributed database technologies

- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and containerization

- Strong understanding of software development principles and practices

**How We'll Take Care of You:**

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range: $212,000-$265,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- database infrastructure
- storage systems
- site reliability engineering
- engineering management
- team leadership
- technical foundation
- distributed systems
- cloud infrastructure
- production database operations

### Nice to have
- distributed database technologies
- containerization
- software development principles
- practices

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