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About the Role
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.
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. You must reside in a state where Airbnb has an active registered entity to qualify for this remote opportunity.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle 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.
- check_circle 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.
- check_circle 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.
- check_circle Turn engineering progress into a story leadership can act on. Progress, so-what, dates, and the ask.
- check_circle Resolve ownership questions between teams before they become conflict. Platform identity, agentic identity, and infrastructure policy are live seams.
- check_circle Grow senior and Staff engineers through sponsorship, not supervision. Hiring, promotion cases, coaching.
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check 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.
- check Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- check Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
- check Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
- check Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.
- check 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.
- check Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability.
About Airbnb Greenhouse Board
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Airbnb Greenhouse Board is an active technology employer in the Technology & Software sector, known for engineering rigor and scalable systems development.