# Engineering Manager, Storage SRE
**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $212K-$265K
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Site Reliability Engineering, SRE, Database Infrastructure, Storage Systems, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability, Schema Management, Cluster Lifecycle Management, On-Call Strategy, Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Production Database Operations
**Posted:** 2026-05-14
> Leads Storage SRE team managing database reliability, scalability, and operations at scale. Owns technical roadmap, mentors engineers, drives tooling for new database technologies, and ensures operational excellence for mission-critical storage systems. Requires 9+ years in SRE/storage and 3+ years management.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Own the Storage SRE technical roadmap across a 12+ month horizon, setting the direction for how the team deepens its operational model as it takes on new database technologies alongside its existing systems
- Lead and grow a team of engineers by providing mentorship, timely feedback, and career development support to build a high-performing, inclusive team
- Drive the generalization of cluster lifecycle, schema management, and observability tooling as the team broadens its database technology support
- Partner with engineering teams across Airbnb as the primary expert on reliable database adoption, helping them work with mission-critical storage systems safely and efficiently at scale
- Establish and uphold operational excellence standards covering on-call strategy, incident response, backup and disaster recovery, and systemic reliability improvements
- Collaborate with storage infrastructure and platform teams to ensure Storage SRE’s tooling and observability stay current as the broader storage platform evolves
- Improve the developer experience for engineers working with high-traffic transactional storage systems
- Drive performance, security, scalability, and availability initiatives across Airbnb’s database systems
- Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to engineers and senior leadership

## Requirements
- **9+ years** of relevant industry experience in database infrastructure, storage systems, or site reliability engineering
- **3+ years** of engineering management experience leading SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams
- Demonstrated track record of building high-performing teams by hiring strong engineers, developing talent, and maintaining team health through periods of change
- Strong technical foundation with the ability to partner with technical leads on architectural decisions, roadmap tradeoffs, and delivery quality
- Proven ability to lead a team through a technology transition while maintaining operational rigor on existing systems
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and production database operations
- Strong communicator able to cut through ambiguity and represent the team credibly to senior leadership
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