Engineering Manager, Messaging Platform

Summary

Join Airbnb's Messaging Platform team as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of senior engineers. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders to deliver new features and capabilities for Airbnb's messaging platform. This role requires 3-5+ years of experience managing engineering teams and 9+ years of software development experience. You will be responsible for defining and executing the roadmap, working with engineers to deliver features, and nurturing a culture of engineering excellence. The position is US-Remote Eligible, with occasional office work or offsites. Compensation includes a base pay range of $204,000 - $259,000 USD, plus potential bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience managing an engineering team
• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features, ideally related to messaging platform and products
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depends on the situation
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent

Responsibilities

• Work with product, design and other stakeholders to define, prioritize and execute roadmap
• Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and platform capabilities
• Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and build for long-term success
• Nurture a culture of engineering excellence
• Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent, spending lots of time one-on-one to understand underlying motivations and dynamics

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits