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

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$212,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted
4 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $237k
This role $238k
$186k most similar roles pay here $279k

This role pays more than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $203,287–$270,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $237k for comparable roles.

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 38 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $200,000–$240,000 across 35 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality)

As the Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality), you will lead a team of senior and staff engineers within the Insights Platform group. You will oversee the evolution of systems that provide hosts with guidance on improving earnings, quality, and listings across email, push notifications, in-product experiences, dashboards, and conversational agents. Your daily responsibilities include defining long-term technical strategy, managing roadmaps, performing code reviews, and mentoring engineers while building reliable, scalable systems for insight creation and cross-channel delivery. The role requires expertise in backend, data engineering, and machine learning platforms, specifically involving distributed systems, data pipelines, real-time streaming architectures, and the application of LLMs for personalization. You will solve complex technical challenges by transitioning the platform from batch to real-time processing and from rules-based logic to model-driven, AI-assisted insight creation.

What does a Engineering Manager earn in Remote?

Median $236250 from 33 postings across 18 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture for the Insights Platform.
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Data Science leaders to set platform strategy for ranking and personalization.
  • Lead a team of senior and staff engineers across data engineering, machine learning, and backend domains.
  • Build reliable, performant, and scalable systems for insight creation, cross-channel delivery, and measurement.
  • Manage the transition from batch to real-time and rules-based to model-driven architectures using AI.
  • Perform hands-on development including design and code reviews.
  • Mentor and guide the career growth of individual contributors on the team.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry.
  • 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role with ownership over large-scale software systems.
  • Track record of setting multi-year technical direction for business-critical platforms, including major re-architectures or transitions.
  • Depth in backend, data, and ML platforms, including distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time architectures.
  • Experience applying ML and LLMs in production to personalize or rank content using experimentation and measurement.
  • Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers while fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging.
  • Strong communication skills to influence technical and non-technical partners and align multiple teams on common goals.
  • Ability to perform hands-on development, including design and code reviews.

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