Engineering Manager, Core Entities & Trip Intelligence
Lead engineering team building foundational entity data and real-time trip intelligence infrastructure at scale.
The role
This is a people management role overseeing approximately seven engineers within Airbnb's Marketplaces Data and AI organization. The manager owns two interconnected technical areas: the entity data foundation platform that standardizes how hosts, listings, users, and trips are modeled across the company, and the emerging trip intelligence system that provides real-time insights to support guests and hosts. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with executive visibility, as both programs are top priorities for company engineering leadership.
What you'd do
- Oversee engineering execution for entity data onboarding, working with producer teams to ensure high-quality, well-modeled data adoption
- Drive technical design decisions for trip entity schema, lifecycle event taxonomy, and real-time streaming infrastructure
- Partner with compute and data infrastructure teams to advance real-time data processing capabilities
- Validate signal layers meet actual product use cases through collaboration with support and AI product teams
- Conduct design reviews spanning attribute serving, event pipelines, and cross-system entity mapping
- Coordinate with principal engineer and program manager on roadmap sequencing and infrastructure dependencies
- Manage team of approximately seven engineers, including career development and performance ownership
- Represent entity platform initiatives in executive-level program reviews
What they're looking for
- Minimum nine years of industry experience with three to five plus years in engineering management
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
- Background in data engineering, platform engineering, or data infrastructure with understanding of entity modeling and data contracts
- Hands-on fluency with distributed data systems including batch and streaming pipelines, online and offline serving
- Experience building in cross-functional platform roles navigating producer and consumer tensions
- Proven ability with greenfield projects and schema-from-scratch development
- Strong judgment distinguishing shared infrastructure concerns from product-specific needs
- Clear communication skills for technical and executive audiences
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