Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality)

The role

You will lead the Insights Platform team to decide what information hosts receive regarding earnings, quality, and listings. You will lead senior and staff engineers in evolving the platform from batch to real-time and from rules-based to model-driven systems.

What you will do

• Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture
• Partner with Product, Design and Data Science leaders to set platform strategy
• Lead the team to build reliable, performant and scalable systems
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
• Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices
• Hands-on development, including design and code reviews
• Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry
• 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role
• Ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems
• Strong product judgment exercised through data
• Track record of setting and holding a multi-year technical direction on a live, business-critical platform
• Depth in backend, data or ML platforms
• Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time or streaming architectures
• Experience applying ML and LLMs in production to personalize or rank what users see
• Experience using experimentation and measurement to prove impact
• Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers
• Strong communication and influence with technical and non-technical partners
• Proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

About the company

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.