Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology

Role Overview

As the Engineering Manager for this team, you will be the primary technical leader for the systems that decide whether a message reaches a guest or host — and when. You’ll set the technical direction, own roadmap execution, and build the kind of team culture where engineers grow and do the best work of their careers, including through deep, genuine adoption of AI-native engineering practices.

What You Will Do

Lead planning, roadmap reviews, and cross-team syncs for Delivery and Orchestration, keeping delivery on track and stakeholders well-informed. Run 1:1s with engineers across both teams, with intentional focus on career growth, technical skill development, and early identification of blockers.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will be the leader who ensures these systems ship with the rigor, reliability, and operational maturity that production-grade messaging and agentic systems demand. Your leadership will directly determine how reliably Airbnb communicates with its community, how confidently partner teams can build on the platform, and how effectively this team leads Marketing Technology’s shift toward AI-native engineering.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in an engineering management role leading platform or infrastructure teams
• Demonstrated AI-native engineering mindset — you use AI tools daily in your own work, have led teams in genuinely adopting AI-assisted development, and have strong opinions about where agents add real leverage vs. hype
• Experience leading teams that have designed, built, and operated production-grade agentic systems — autonomous or semi-autonomous agent pipelines, LLM-orchestrated workflows, or multi-agent architectures handling real production traffic
• Strong technical foundation in high-throughput distributed systems: event-driven architectures, message queues and streaming (Kafka or similar), workflow orchestration engines (Temporal or similar), and multi-provider integrations — able to engage credibly in architecture and design conversations
• Track record of running reliable, customer-facing production services with defined SLOs, including on-call programs, incident management, and operational excellence across teams of varying size and seniority
• Demonstrated experience managing engineers across a range of seniority levels, including early-career engineers, with a track record of meaningful career growth outcomes
• Experience owning cross-team platform relationships: managing inbound dependency requests, negotiating priorities, and communicating commitments with confidence
• Track record of delivering complex, multi-quarter technical roadmaps — including large-scale migrations or legacy system consolidations — in fast-moving environments

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits

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