[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Community Support Engineering (Routing and Data) @Airbnb

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the China Routing and Data team. In this role, you will:

• Ramp up on the team’s technology, product, and business goals, including hands-on work to develop a deep technical understanding.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team in a fast-paced environment.
• Foster a team culture that emphasizes product thinking, technical depth, and customer-centric problem solving.
• Drive and partner closely with teams across CSE to understand business cases and deliver intuitive, scalable routing and data solutions.
• Set clear priorities and strategic direction in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Improve team processes to strengthen collaboration and ways of working, execution efficiency, and delivery quality.
• Lead complex, cross-functional projects that align with business goals and deliver measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross-functional partners.
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user-facing features.
• Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending 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.
• Strong commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within teams.
• Fluency in communication in English and Mandarin.

Location

This position is working remotely within China Mainland. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

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.