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About the Role

The Workflow Orchestration team within Airbnb's Data Infrastructure org owns the orchestration layer that coordinates, executes, and monitors complex data workflows across batch and streaming domains. The mission is to empower data engineers, ML teams, analytics, and operational applications with robust, scalable, and observable orchestration platforms and tooling, ensuring critical business workflows run reliably, efficiently, and transparently.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a high-performing team responsible for designing, implementing, and operating distributed orchestration infrastructure.
Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for orchestration, aligning to Airbnb's broader Data Infrastructure and Analytics platform strategy.
Drive adoption of best-in-class workflow paradigms and tooling across data engineering, reliability, and ML teams.
Partner closely with cross-functional teams in Data Platform, Compute, Storage, Analytics, and ML Infrastructure to integrate orchestration capabilities.
Coach and mentor engineers, enabling strong technical judgment, clarity of thinking, and ownership.
Collaborate with senior engineering leaders to shape multi-year strategies for workflow orchestration and execution platforms.
Stay connected to architectural decisions, review designs, and help unblock technical challenges.
Partner with product and engineering leaders across Data Infrastructure to prioritize investments.
Ensure the team practices strong delivery discipline, operational monitoring, and on-call readiness.
Stay up to date with emerging technologies, best practices, and industry trends.
Recruit top engineering talent and grow the careers of engineers, with a focus on inclusive leadership and psychological safety.

Requirements

5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing and scaling distributed systems teams.
Strong technical background in distributed systems, workflow orchestration engines, scheduling systems, or data infrastructure tooling.
Previous working experience in large scale orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, Flyte, Prefect, Kubeflow, Maestro or similar platforms, and understanding of challenges around scaling, observability, and multi-tenancy.
Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices.
A track record of partnering across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality infrastructure at scale.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in synthesizing complex technical concepts for broad audiences.

Location

US Remote Eligible

Work Type

Remote

Experience Level

5+ years of engineering leadership experience

Salary/Compensations

$212,000—$265,000 USD

Benefits

Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits

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.
Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

Equal Opportunity

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, please contact reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.