[Hiring] Manager, Engineering, Dev AI @Airbnb

Role Description

Our mission is to make every Airbnb engineer's day better by building world-class developer infrastructure that removes friction and provides the tools to unlock their best work. The Dev AI team specifically builds the foundational AI tooling and infrastructure that powers developer productivity across the entire software development lifecycle, also providing the building blocks for teams across the company to quickly and simply create their own domain-specific AI tools.

In this role, you will help to shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products. You'll work across a range of exciting problem spaces, including:

• Agentic coding tools
• Asynchronous AI workflow platforms
• SDKs for rapid internal AI app development
• AI-assisted code migration

At Airbnb, you won't just build AI tools; your work will shape how individuals across the company work every day. The tools you create will directly accelerate the pace of innovation across our entire product surface.

We're a collaborative, low-ego, and highly-visible team that values experimentation, learning, and shipping. We celebrate what works and learn quickly from what doesn't. Given the rapid evolution of AI, we strive to operate with startup-like agility, iterating swiftly to evaluate and incorporate the most recent AI technologies into our developer tooling.

If you enjoy building, collaborating across teams, thrive when given high autonomy, and are motivated to make the lives of other developers easier and more enjoyable, we’d love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a full-time manager
• Experience supporting and coaching Staff+ (ideally multiple) and Senior engineers
• Experience managing a remote/distributed team
• Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry
• Experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges
• A track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages — and a genuine excitement for continuous learning
• Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills

Requirements

• Help shape and drive our AI for Developers strategy, partnering with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers to assist them in aligning architecture trade-offs and product direction
• Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, and help the team balance innovation with incremental, measurable developer impact
• Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day to day workflows
• Foster relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, as well as crafting working agreements
• Coach and mentor the team with empathy to do their best work while growing in their roles & responsibilities
• Contribute to the broader organization’s culture and processes (with a “first team” mentality)

Benefits

• Base pay range: $212,000 — $265,000 USD
• Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits may be available

Company Description

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: [email protected].

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.