Engineering Manager, Experimentation Infrastructure

The Analytics Infrastructure Team's mission is to empower data-driven decision-making across the company through robust, scalable, and innovative analytics products. We build and maintain the libraries, frameworks, and visualization tools that enable our data scientists, analysts, and engineers to derive insights and drive impact. Our team embraces a collaborative environment where engineers, data scientists, and product specialists work together to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality solutions. 

We manage a suite of products designed to support deep data analysis, including AI chatbots, dashboarding tools, notebooks, and more, as well as our Experimentation platform, which enables safe product launches and deep insights into product features.

As an Engineering Manager on the Experiment Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, technical strategy / roadmap and for delivering a next generation experimentation platform critical to the company’s goals of faster data-driven iteration. You will lead the team towards unlocking new capabilities essential to this strategy including improvements to experiment setup, analysis and reliability. Some example projects the team is working on:

• Deliver advanced feature flagging clients that make experimentability a foundational part of app development at Airbnb.
• Develop more sophisticated experiment methodology including adaptive experimentation, improved decision criteria and variance reduction.
• Improve the coverage and effectiveness of our flag change ramping framework to more reliably and efficiently block changes which degrade production.

A Typical Day: 

• Lead the team in delivering a platform which ensures that Airbnb can leverage experimentation to guide decision-making and build understanding, with speed and reliability.
• Be conversant in systems design/architecture, can reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team
• Work across the organization, partnering with both upstream dependencies (e.g. data infrastructure, core services), stakeholders, and customers (Data Science, Analysts, Product Engineers)
• Empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Stay current on leading industry trends and participate in defining the company’s engineering culture.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of managing teams of software engineers, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading highly technical and senior teams and setting technical direction and strategy.
• Experience with experimentation and/or feature flagging systems, especially at large scale.
• Experience with and passion for experimentation methodology and practice.
• Experience with data infrastructure (storage, processing, orchestration) and/or data-driven application development is a big plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.
• Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior and staff engineers
• Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering

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. 

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