Airbnb
Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality)
$212K–$265K
United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant tech industry experience; 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role.
About the job
Leads the Insights Platform team building systems that provide hosts with personalized guidance on earnings, listing quality, and improvements across Airbnb channels.
What you'll do
- Set technical and platform strategy with senior leaders and partner teams.
- Lead development of scalable systems for insight creation, personalization, cross-channel delivery, and measurement.
- Review designs and code, mentor senior and staff engineers, and guide team roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of relevant tech industry experience and 5+ years as an Engineering Manager, owning large-scale software systems.
- Track record setting multi-year technical direction and leading major platform transitions or re-architectures.
- Depth in backend, data, or ML platforms, including distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time or streaming architectures.
- Production experience applying ML and LLMs to personalization or ranking, and using experimentation and measurement to prove impact.
Pay
$212,000 — $265,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
ML, LLMs
AI focus
Lead the shift toward model-driven systems, with AI-assisted insight creation and personalization; apply ML and LLMs in production to personalize or rank user-facing content.
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