Engineering Manager, Secure Development Engineering
Remote · USD 212,000-265,000 · 3-5 years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 3-5 years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 212,000-265,000 · Base salary
About the role
- You will lead the team that builds Airbnb's security products for engineers, including secure development frameworks, secure-by-default infrastructure products, and identity and access platforms.
- Reporting into InfoSec leadership, you'll work closely with infrastructure, product engineering, and compliance partners across the company.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Find the next problem before it finds you by spotting gaps in the company's security posture, shaping them into work the team can own, and bringing the case to leadership.
- Turn engineering progress into a story leadership can act on, including progress, so-what, dates, and the ask.
- Resolve ownership questions between teams before they become conflict.
- Grow senior and Staff engineers through sponsorship, not supervision, including hiring, promotion cases, and coaching.
Requirements
- 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing a software engineering team
- 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, with proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners
- Flexible in leadership style, able to 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
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Workplace
- US - Remote Eligible position
- May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager
