Engineering Manager, Core Entities & Trip Intelligence

12 hours, 20 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Airbnb

Airbnb

Airbnb is the world's largest community-driven hospitality company, offering homes and experiences in 191 countries. It is an online marketplace connecting people to unique accommodations and experiences globally.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
5K-10K
Founded 2008

Description

  • Lead engineering execution for the shared entity data foundation by onboarding producer teams to the canonical semantic model.
  • Drive the attribute serving platform that delivers more than 1,700 quality and behavioral signals at production scale.
  • Maintain governance contracts and data health so downstream consumers can trust and rely on the shared data platform.
  • Own the trip entity schema from first principles and resolve competing representations across reservations, messaging, customer support, and trust systems.
  • Define and build the real-time trip intelligence layer as a structured, queryable, near-real-time view across the trip lifecycle.
  • Partner with compute and data infrastructure teams to advance real-time data processing capabilities at Airbnb.
  • Collaborate with proactive trip support, customer support triage, and host AI product teams to validate use cases and signal quality.
  • Review designs spanning attribute serving, real-time event pipelines, and cross-system entity mapping.
  • Manage and develop a team of approximately 7 engineers, including career growth and performance support.
  • Represent entity platform work in executive-level program reviews and align roadmap sequencing with program leadership.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of industry experience, including 3-5+ years in engineering management.
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
  • Background in data engineering, platform engineering, or data infrastructure.
  • Experience with entity modeling, schema evolution, and data contracts.
  • Hands-on fluency with distributed data systems, including batch and streaming pipelines, online and offline serving, or event-driven architectures.
  • Experience working in a cross-functional platform role across producers and consumers.
  • Comfort building greenfield systems from a blank schema or early-stage spec.
  • Strong judgment on what belongs in shared infrastructure versus product-specific systems.
  • Clear communication skills for aligning teams and presenting technical decisions to senior leadership.
  • Commitment to engineering excellence, diversity, and belonging.

Benefits

  • US - Remote Eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or offsites.
  • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.
  • Base salary range of $212,000 to $265,000 USD.
  • Potential eligibility for bonus.
  • Potential eligibility for equity.
  • Potential eligibility for benefits.
  • Potential eligibility for Employee Travel Credits.

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