About the company
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.
Responsibilities
- Shape and influence the technical direction of projects, ensuring we meet stakeholder needs while maintaining high-quality standards
- Drive phased rollouts and large-scale platform migrations, from pilot through adoption to deprecation
- Define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success criteria, such as availability and SLOs, CI and merge latency, cost per workload, and adoption
- Regularly assess risks and opportunities, and devise proactive mitigation strategies
- Maintain transparent and effective communication channels
- Present outcomes and updates to senior leadership
- Hire, develop, and coach a team of senior TPMs
- Lead programs that prepare infrastructure for AI-driven scale
- Partner with engineering and finance on infrastructure efficiency programs
- Drive cross-org reliability programs
- Own Infrastructure planning rhythms (OKRs, roadmap reviews, dependency mapping)
Requirements
- 12+ years in technical program management, software engineering, or SRE, including 5+ years leading and mentoring TPMs
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions
- Strong technical grounding in at least two of: distributed data systems (Spark, Trino, Flink/Kafka, Iceberg), Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, or CI/CD, build systems, and monorepos
- Track record of leading multi-quarter, multi-team platform migrations or deprecations at scale
- Self-motivated, proactive and proven ability to adapt well
- Sound business judgment, strong analytical skills
- Experience delivering infrastructure for AI workloads or AI-assisted engineering
Conditions