Engineering Manager, Messaging Platform

Company: airbnb, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 2, 2025

Job Description:

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join:Messaging is in the center of fostering connections among Airbnb guests and hosts across the world. The messaging platform team's mission is to build reliable, performant and scalable systems to power Airbnb's second most used surface - messaging. As an integral part of the Airbnb community, we work with a diverse set of partner teams to develop platform solutions to enable essential use cases in booking, customer support, and cohosting.The Difference You Will Make:As an Engineering Manager, you'll be leading a team of very senior, highly motivated, high achieving engineers. You will work closely with product managers, designers and other engineering leaders to plan and deliver a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities powering Airbnb messaging. You'll be finding opportunities to shape ambitious technical and product visions and turn them into a polished reality.You can take a peek at the team's past work:

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute roadmap.
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and platform capabilities.
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success.
• Nurture a culture of engineering excellence.
• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics.Your Expertise:
• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team and 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features, ideally related to messaging platform and products.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners.
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depends on the situation.
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact.
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment.
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent.Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You:Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
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