Staff Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure Security
About the role
Technical TPM role focused on leading Infrastructure Security initiatives at Airbnb, partnering with security and infrastructure engineers to keep the platform secure, resilient, and transparent. Requires hands-on technical depth in security and infrastructure and ability to drive strategy, requirements, and execution across cross-functional partners.
Responsibilities
- Shape and influence the technical direction of infrastructure security projects, ensuring stakeholder needs are met and quality standards are maintained; rapidly prototype and validate ideas through iterative development cycles.
- Balance broad, outcome-driven thinking with attention to critical details; prioritize where deep focus is necessary to ensure execution.
- Define and secure stakeholder alignment on clear, measurable success criteria for security initiatives; regularly assess risks and opportunities and devise proactive mitigation strategies.
- Maintain transparent and effective communication channels to keep stakeholders informed of progress, developments, and challenges.
- Expertly present outcomes and updates to senior leadership, clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, and emerging opportunities.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of work experience, with at least 8 years as a TPM or relevant experience.
- Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions; frame challenges, identify paths forward, and drive initiatives to completion.
- Self-motivated, proactive, adaptable in working with teams with different cadences.
- Sound business judgment, influence, analytical skills, ownership mindset, data-driven analyses, and track record of driving results.
- Hands-on technical experience with infrastructure security (identity and access management, network security, encryption and key management, secure configuration, container and Kubernetes security, data protection in cloud environments or data platforms).
- Familiar with incremental delivery and deployment.
- Ability to ramp up quickly and learn new technologies with minimal lag.
- Excellent written and oral communication and people skills; ability to influence stakeholders.
Skills
Benefits
- Pay Range: $200,000—$250,000 USD
- Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits may be eligible

About Airbnb
Book accommodations around the world.
Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.
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