Engineering Manager, Secure Development Engineering

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Information Security org plays a critical role in maintaining and building our community’s trust in our platform that enables millions of users to explore the world and belong anywhere. The Secure Software Development Engineering team is dedicated to ensuring the security and protection of the data of millions of users on our platform as they explore the world.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will lead the team that builds Airbnb's security products for engineers: secure development frameworks, secure-by-default infrastructure products, and identity and access platforms. We ship products, not policies.  Reporting into InfoSec leadership, you’ll work closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and compliance partners across the company. Our users are Airbnb engineers across infrastructure and product, and adoption is the measure that matters.

A Typical Day: 

• Own the roadmap for a portfolio of security products spanning secure SDLC, vulnerability management, infrastructure security, and platform identity, with real dependencies on partner orgs.

• Drive product thinking: who the user is, what adoption looks like, what gets deprecated. A security product only counts when engineers choose to use it.

• Find the next problem before it finds you. Spot gaps in the company's security posture, shape them into work the team can own, and bring the case to leadership rather than waiting for it to be assigned.

• Turn engineering progress into a story leadership can act on. Progress, so-what, dates, and the ask.

• Resolve ownership questions between teams before they become conflict. Platform identity, agentic identity, and infrastructure policy are live seams.

• Grow senior and Staff engineers through sponsorship, not supervision. Hiring, promotion cases, coaching.

Your Expertise:

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing a software engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

• Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.

• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.

• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact, shipping or running security software engineering or infrastructure products that software engineering teams integrate with and depend on. 

• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability.

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.</p