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Engineering Manager, Workflow Orchestration – Data Infrastructure

Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2007H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$204K - $255K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAirflowApacheDistributed Systems

Job Description

• Lead and grow a high-performing team responsible for designing, implementing, and operating distributed orchestration infrastructure that runs tens of thousands of data workflows daily. • Define the long-term technical vision and roadmap for orchestration, aligning to Airbnb’s broader Data Infrastructure and Analytics platform strategy. • Drive adoption of best-in-class workflow paradigms and tooling across data engineering, reliability, and ML teams, ensuring consistency, performance, and operational excellence. • Partner closely with cross-functional teams in Data Platform, Compute, Storage, Analytics, and ML Infrastructure to integrate orchestration capabilities into wider data ecosystems. • Coach and mentor engineers, enabling strong technical judgment, clarity of thinking, and ownership across the team.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing and scaling distributed systems teams.
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, workflow orchestration engines, scheduling systems, or data infrastructure tooling.
  • Previous working experience in large scale orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow, Dagster, Flyte, Prefect, Kubeflow, Maestro or similar platforms, and understanding of challenges around scaling, observability, and multi-tenancy.
  • Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices.
  • A track record of partnering across engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, high-quality infrastructure at scale.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in synthesizing complex technical concepts for broad audiences.

Benefits

  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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