Manager, Engineering - Developer Platform (CI/CD)

The Community You Will Join:

The CI/CD Team seeks to provide best-in-class continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling to enable Airbnb engineers to ship changes quickly and confidently. A critical part of a broader organization devoted to Developer Productivity and Experience, this platform-agnostic team is responsible for surface areas like: infrastructure to scale our CI cluster, services that keep CI fast and healthy (e.g. flaky test detection, merge queues, etc.), and deployment tooling. It partners frequently with platform-specific (web, iOS, Android, backend) monorepo teams as well as groups like Cloud Infrastructure. 

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role you will partner with and lead the team to both shape the strategy of continuous integration and continuous deployment at Airbnb. 

Some of our work can be found here: Continuous Delivery at Airbnb

A Typical Day: 

• Prioritizing projects across stakeholders and scope to deliver impact in both CI and CD
• Fostering relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, as well as crafting working agreements
• Coaching and mentoring the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities
• Partnering with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist them in aligning architecture trade-offs and designing strategy
• Creating deliberate plans and opportunities to systematically address technical debt & quality
• Contributing to the broader organization’s culture and processes (with a “first team” mentality)

Your Expertise:

• 2+ years of experience as a full-time manager
• Experience supporting and coaching Staff+ (ideally multiple) and Senior engineers 
• Experience managing a remote/distributed team
• Familiarity with and interest in best practices for Dev Productivity and CI/CD 

Your Location:

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. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. 

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.