Engineering Manager, Guest Displays and Platforms

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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:

The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) along with Pricing & Availability across the booking flow for all products (Homes, Hotels, Experiences, Services). Our work is at the heart of the Airbnb guest UX, so we work very closely with many teams, including Search, Checkout, Listings, Users, Host Settings, Payments, Tax, Cities, and Trust to create a seamless and consistent guest experience.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will lead the Pricing & Availability Platform team, responsible for the engine that computes trip-level pricing, availability and related merchandising across the booking flow. The team specializes in low-latency, high-throughput systems powering Airbnb’s highest-traffic surfaces. The team is primarily backend focused, but produces outputs shown across many surfaces and is some of the most critical and high impact details affecting the guest experience and success of Airbnb’s core lines of business. You will build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into polished reality, nurturing a culture of technical quality and strengthening our systems along the way.

A Typical Day:

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to determine and document requirements

• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and capabilities

• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and product quality

• Establish and communicate overarching vision and high-level guidance for pricing architecture and integration by downstream teams

• Handle resourcing and communicate deliverable plans

• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, with 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment

• Deep expertise with backend systems and complex data modeling in large-scale consumer applications

• Excellent communication and presentation skills tuned for both technical or non-technical audiences

• End-to-end, product-oriented mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions

• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality

• Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively and find common ground with a wide range of teams who may have conflicting goals and priorities

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: [email protected]. 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.

Pay Range
$204,000—$255,000 USD