Engineering Manager, Data Frameworks

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.

As part of the Application Platforms organization, the Data Frameworks team builds foundational data products that enable scalable, consistent, and performant access to application data across Airbnb. We serve a broad set of internal partners - including product engineering, machine learning, and infrastructure teams - by providing interfaces that bridge the gap between transactional and analytical data needs.

Our work enables engineers and systems across Airbnb to model, transform, and serve data effectively through unified, intuitive frameworks.

The Difference You Will Make

• Lead a team of software engineers building core data platform capabilities that power application-level use cases across Airbnb.
• Define and execute on a multi-year vision to unify how derived data is produced, consumed, and served in online contexts.
• Evolve and scale a suite of services, APIs, and data models that are central to our application and ML infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to standardize entity-based access patterns, improve data reliability, and reduce integration overhead.
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities by collaborating closely with partner teams to deeply understand their use cases and deliver intuitive solutions.
• Build and grow a healthy, high-performing team that emphasizes product thinking, technical depth, and developer empathy.

A Typical Day

• Collaborate with Staff+ engineers, TPMs, and cross-functional stakeholders to define team strategy and execution plans.
• Review and provide feedback on technical designs related to system and API design, and serving patterns.
• Support the team in operational excellence, reliability, and continuous improvement of core systems.
• Mentor team members, provide coaching and career development, and foster a culture of curiosity and ownership.
• Represent the team in broader planning forums, driving alignment and contributing to org-wide platform strategy.

Your Expertise

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience with at least 3-5+ years of managing an engineering team in a fast paced tech environment with a BS or MS in CS or relevant field.
• Experience leading software engineering teams building developer-facing platforms or data-intensive systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, application-layer APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency with technologies such as: Apache Kafka, GraphQL, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, or other streaming/batch processing frameworks, Materialized views and data serving layers, Opensearch, Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with building ML-aware data pipelines or data products that support personalization, trust, or search applications.
• Strong product and stakeholder instincts, with the ability to balance long-term platform vision with near-term delivery.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and scaling healthy team culture.

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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: ***************@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role youre 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 Well 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

Offices: United States