Engineering Manager, Secure Development Engineering

airbnb, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a security leadership role to own and advance a portfolio of security products for engineers. You will drive secure development, identity and infrastructure protection, and partner with infrastructure and product teams to raise the security bar.

You will report into InfoSec leadership and mentor senior engineers, shaping product strategy and adoption. This remote-eligible role requires alignment with US regulations and collaboration across the Airbnb tech ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing a software engineering team in a fast-paced tech environment.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Strong product and design instinct with proven experience delivering well-designed experiences.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with multiple engineering teams.
• Flexible leadership style adapting to various working approaches.
• Experience leading large initiatives with high business impact in security software or infrastructure.
• Commitment to operational excellence, raising quality, reliability and availability.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for a security product portfolio spanning secure SDLC, vulnerability management, infrastructure security, and platform identity.
• Drive product thinking: define the user, adoption, and deprecation strategies, measuring adoption.
• Identify security gaps and shape them into work for the team; present to leadership.
• Translate engineering progress into a narrative with dates, impact, and asks.
• Resolve ownership questions between teams before conflicts arise.
• Grow senior staff through sponsorship, including hiring and promotions.

Skills

People management

Software development

Product design instinct

Communication

Leadership adaptability

Security software engineering

Operational excellence

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in CS

Job description

United States

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.

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: [e-mail] . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$212,000 — $265,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations:

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.