Manager, Engineering - Core Services, Infrastructure (i18n)

The Community You Will Join: 

As an infrastructure team, we provide reliable, efficient, and scalable globalization services and tools, including state-of-the-art language models, to ensure high-quality translations for Airbnb's code, content, and stakeholders, striving to foster global belonging.

In 2024 Globalization Report Card, Airbnb ranked #3 among the top 150 global companies and has been ranked #1 in the Travel & Hospitality sector for three consecutive years due to direct contributions from this team. We are at the forefront of using AI and LLMs to enhance the localization process for various types of content and format - text, videos, locations, currency, etc.,  enabling us to provide accurate and culturally nuanced translations that resonate with our diverse global community.

But we're more than just infrastructure engineers. We're a team that values human connections and customer-centricity. We work closely with our Globalization business org, as well as Product and Platform teams, to contribute to top-line goals and make the entire engineering organization more productive. Quality is at the forefront of what we do, and we strive to be empathetic in everything we do.

If you're passionate about building infrastructure for a global product, harnessing the power of AI and LLMs, join us and make a real impact on Airbnb's international expansion.

The Difference You Will Make:

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for shaping the vision, technical strategy / roadmap and for delivering industry leading solutions that scale with the needs of our production backend, in partnership with other infrastructure and product teams at Airbnb leading charge of the company’s cloud native strategy.

A Typical Day: 

• Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization. Support the team in delivering infrastructure that balances reliability, efficiency and quality at scale, while making this layer easy to use and configurable for developers working on backend infrastructure.
• Be conversant in systems design/architecture, reason about trade-offs, and ultimately own & defend technical decisions / technical direction for your team
• Have the technical acumen to partner with tech leads and comfortable helping drive incident resolution and deliver continuous improvement to team’s SLOs
• Partner with a broad range of cross-functional stakeholders to determine the right strategy for localization across asset categories
• Drive down costs, improve quality, and land efficiency wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades
• Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and be the guardian of our architecture.

Your Expertise:

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment. BS, MS or PhD in CS or related field.
• Expertise in leading teams in the backend distributed systems domain
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading highly technical and senior teams and setting technical direction and strategy.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Able to work across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.
• Able to retain, mentor, grow and hire senior engineers
• Able to effectively work with senior leadership in setting strategic 6+ month direction.
• Able to contribute to culture choices and initiatives that positively impact all of engineering

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting base pay for this role is between [X] and [Y]. 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.  

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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.