Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Security

The Community You Will Join: 

The Information Security team 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. As a critical horizontal function within Airbnb, Information Security spans the scope of the company and organizations that make it up to secure Airbnb giving anyone who joins the team the ability to see all aspects of the business.

The Difference You Will Make:

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A Typical Day: 

On any given day you will be operating across many of the following areas and expectations:

• People Development: You have multiple years of experience in people management and supporting managers best support their teams. You are an effective career coach and can provide mentorship and feedback both technically and professionally. You enjoy investing in your teammates and developing growth and career progression plans with them to help them reach their highest potential. You provide your people autonomy and in return, you expect the people you support to be self-driven and proactive.
• Team Development: You are an effective leader that focuses on efficiency, quality, accountability, and delivering on and above expectations. You play an active and primary role in identifying and recruiting top talent and supporting your teams to do so. You understand when to roll up your sleeves and contribute and when to delegate and grow your managers, teammates, and cross-functional partners.
• Technical Leadership: You have experience in developing and communicating effective and pragmatic strategies, supporting your managers to do so, and ensuring your teams are executing accordingly. You don’t wait for things to happen to you, you make things happen and ensure your managers and team members do so as well. You see across the functions you support and partner organizations to ensure alignment to common priorities and objectives while course correcting where needed. This means you’re close enough to the work to spot alignment issues while also not inhibiting your team’s speed.  You have multiple years of experience establishing, growing, and or maturing software engineering functions. You see beyond the immediate functions you support to tie software engineering priorities into a broader, integrated, and unified Information Security strategy.
• Function development: You have experience establishing and building a multi-disciplinary team for a global company that focuses on engineering and related operational activities.
• Influence & Communication: You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You can dive into the details with technical and non-technical audiences alike but also speak at the appropriate altitude when working with other organizations and leaders. You have empathy and seek to understand when communicating. This enables you to effectively identify the best path forward and influence how you approach a problem, as well as how other teams may prioritize supporting your work.
• Security Culture and Philosophy: you embrace the notion we are here to help Airbnb build and operate the business, securely. You understand that improving security doesn’t mean introducing friction unless absolutely necessary. We are a culture of helping others find the path to “yes” and help others find the most secure path while not inhibiting Airbnb to achieve business objectives. You are stakeholder focused. You drive this culture and philosophy within your organization and help the entire Information Security develop and uphold this culture. 

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years managing people with at least 3 of those years supporting other managers
• Experience with AWS (GuardDuty, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, SNS, SQS, EC2, ...)
• Past experience in Software development
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar
• Demonstrated ability to support, scale, and advance like functions
• Deep understanding of strategic approaches and methodologies across the lifecycle of prevention, detection, response, and validation and how your teams fit in and are responsible for across these pillars and various programs that comprise Information Security.
• Experience of disciplines spans corporate and product infrastructure as well as third party tooling and infrastructure.

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.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

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