Engineering Manager, Airbnb
Core Foundation
$204-255k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Be an early applicant
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-255k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in engineering management; demonstrated success leading cross‑functional or cross‑platform foundation/platform teams
- Proven track record establishing client‑side performance/health practices and observability, and driving adoption of paved‑path tooling and standards at scale
- Hands‑on background in at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or Web) with fluency in modern app and feature architecture patterns; comfort collaborating across all three
- Experience building or stewarding event logging/instrumentation platforms and improving data quality for analytics and experimentation
- Strong cross‑org influence and stakeholder management with Platform, Product, Design, and Data partners; clear, persuasive written and verbal communication
- Commitment to inclusive leadership, talent development, and building psychologically safe, high‑ownership teams
Desirable
- Experience with cross‑platform consistency initiatives (e.g., shared patterns, naming, and capabilities) and developer experience investments that accelerate product velocity
- Familiarity with configuration and server‑driven paradigms and their impact on client architecture and experimentation workflows
What the job involves
- Core Foundation is a cross‑platform team in Product Foundation that empowers product engineers to build high‑quality, performant features across Android, iOS, and Web
- We focus on: Insights & Logging, Performance & App Health, and Feature Architecture, partnering closely with Platform (iOS/Android/Web), Analytics Infrastructure, Data Platform, and peer Product Foundation teams to provide cohesive paved paths and standards at scale
- You will lead the team that underpins Airbnb’s foundation solutions for client applications with the instrumentation, performance guardrails, architecture patterns, and developer‑friendly platforms that make durable, scalable product development the default
- Define the long term direction for client foundations and shape how product engineering is done across Airbnb
- Drive adoption of consistent, cross‑platform architecture and best practices for feature development
- Uplevel performance and app health through guardrails, proactive insights, and paved‑path tooling that shorten feedback loops for product teams
- Provide a unified, high‑quality event logging experience that enables reliable, data‑driven decisions across surfaces and platforms
- Set vision and multi year tech direction for Core Foundation and translate them into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes
- Drive alignment across Platform, Backend and Data and is accountable for influencing shared standards
- Partner with iOS/Android/Web Platform, Analytics Infrastructure, Data Platform, and peer Product Foundation teams to align standards, integrate capabilities, and remove friction for product engineers
- Guide technical staff to enable lint/compilation rules, observability defaults, configuration patterns and drive adoption via documentation, enablement, and hands‑on support
- Review designs for foundational systems, balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term maintainability and cross‑platform consistency
- Manage operations and execution excellence: staffing, prioritization, delivery predictability, incident learnings, and iterative quality improvements
- Recruit, coach, and develop a high‑performing, inclusive team culture; grow senior technical leaders and future managers
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 100 more jobs at Airbnb