Description
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Media Foundation at Airbnb, you will lead a team of engineers to build and operate Airbnb's media infrastructure, which powers every photo, video, and document that users interact with on the platform.
The Media Foundation team builds the core platforms and infrastructure that power photo and video capture, upload, processing, storage, and delivery across Airbnb's products, at a massive global scale. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Trust, and Infrastructure teams to ensure every image and video guests and Hosts see is fast, high-quality, and reliable.
Key responsibilities:
- Set technical strategy and architecture for media infrastructure across multiple teams, aligning investment with product and business priorities.
- Lead, coach, and grow other managers and senior technical leads, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work.
- Partner with Product, Design, Trust, and other infrastructure orgs to shape a resilient, scalable media platform roadmap.
- Champion engineering excellence and operational rigor, and resolve systemic technical debt affecting reliability, performance, or velocity.
- Retain, grow, and hire a diverse team of high-performing engineers and managers to execute an ambitious media platform vision.
Requirements:
- 12+ years of industry experience, with a minimum of 6+ years in engineering management, including managing other managers or senior technical leads.
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, with a track record of setting technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams; media/content infrastructure experience (ingestion, processing, storage, CDN delivery) is a strong plus.
- Strong product instinct and communication skills, with proven experience influencing senior cross-functional and cross-organizational partners to deliver high-quality, user-facing platform capabilities.
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
The base pay range for this role is $248,000-$310,000 USD.