Airbnb
Senior Engineering Manager, Media Foundation
$248K–$310K
United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of industry experience; minimum 6+ years in engineering management, including managing other managers or senior technical leads.
- Education
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads the engineering organization building and operating Airbnb’s global media infrastructure for uploading, processing, storing, distributing, and presenting photos, videos, and documents.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy and architecture for media infrastructure across teams, aligned with product and business priorities.
- Coach and grow managers, senior technical leads, and engineering teams; hire and retain talent.
- Partner cross-functionally to advance the media platform roadmap and improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational rigor.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of industry experience, including at least 6+ years in engineering management and experience managing other managers or senior technical leads.
- Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems and a track record setting technical strategy and architecture across multiple teams.
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Proven record of delivering large cross-team initiatives with business impact and building operational excellence, quality, and reliability.
Nice to have
- Media/content infrastructure experience, including ingestion, processing, storage, or CDN delivery.
Pay
$248,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
distributed systems, CDN
AI focus
The media platform includes AI/ML transformations; the role leads infrastructure capabilities that support them.
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