About the job
Founded in 2007, Airbnb has evolved from a simple idea of welcoming guests into a home to a global community of over 5 million hosts. With more than 2 billion guest arrivals across nearly every country, we provide unique stays and experiences that foster authentic connections between guests and communities.
Join Our Community:
The Online Data organization at Airbnb is dedicated to enhancing customer experiences through real-time data insights. We enable our builders to craft exceptional experiences by providing user-friendly data interfaces and tools, eliminating the need for database expertise.
Your Impact:
As the Engineering Manager for the Control Plane team within the Distributed Transactional Database organization, you will lead a diverse group of talented software engineers. Your mission will be to develop robust and automated software solutions for database operations, ensuring seamless integration of our open-source database with Airbnb’s Compute, Networking, and Security infrastructures.
Here are some key control plane services your team will manage:
- Orchestration logic to oversee the lifecycle of database storage, compute, and metadata management nodes. (Blog link)
- An operator that automates cluster provisioning, operations, and restoration.
- Configuration management that identifies and rectifies unexpected configuration drifts.
- Open-source Developer Experience: Streamlining the development and testing processes for open-source projects including image building, CICD, and performance certification.

