Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality)
Remote · USD 212,000-265,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
- Salary
- USD 212,000-265,000 · Base salary
About the role
- As the Engineering Manager for the Insights Platform on Airbnb's Guest & Host team, you will lead the system that decides what every host is told about improving their earnings, quality and listings.
- You will lead a team of senior and staff engineers across data engineering, machine learning and backend through the platform's next evolution.
- The role involves guiding the transition from batch to real-time and from rules-based to model-driven, with AI-assisted insight creation and personalization at its core.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company's future vision
- Partner with senior Product, Design and Data Science leaders to set platform strategy, including how insights are ranked, personalized and measured
- Lead the team to build reliable, performant and scalable systems for insight creation, personalization, cross-channel delivery and measurement
- 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
- Conduct hands-on development, including design and code reviews
- Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry
- 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role, with 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, with the ability to understand and represent data engineering, machine learning and backend engineering
- Experience applying ML and LLMs in production to personalize or rank what users see, and using experimentation and measurement to prove impact
- Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers, and creating an environment where they own initiatives end to end
- Strong communication and influence with technical and non-technical partners
- A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community
Benefits
- bonus
- equity
- benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Workplace
- Position is US - Remote Eligible
- Role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites
Skills
- Data Engineering
- Machine Learning
- Backend Engineering
- Distributed Systems
- Data Pipelines
- Streaming Architectures
- LLMs
