Data Engineering Manager - Trust Data Foundations

About the position

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Over two million people stay on Airbnb every night and the Trust Engineering team keeps our hosts and guests safe and supported throughout the entire Airbnb experience. As a global platform, Airbnb is faced with constant and evolving fraud attacks. Data plays a critical role in understanding novel fraud patterns, identifying the most optimal defenses that minimize impact to our good users, and ensuring that our models are accurate and can iterate quickly with the ever changing fraud landscape. As part of the Trust Data Foundations team, you will be in charge of leading a team of data engineers and defining the vision to scale data driven decisions to support detection and mitigation across all fraud verticals across our product. You will collaborate closely with product, data science, analytics, and operations teams to understand the Trust product, and establish the data strategy that supports the data needs across our platform to make Airbnb the most safe and trusted community. There are still many unsolved problems to tackle in both online and offline risk, and we are looking for talented engineering managers to solve these challenges with us.

Responsibilities

• Defining and executing on the technical direction and vision for the team to serve the data needs across Trust defenses and products
• Raising the quality bar for the data assets owned by the team
• Identifying strategic areas to uplevel data accessibility for various Trust x-functional stakeholders
• Collaborating with and influencing the data community across Airbnb to uplevel data engineering practices and processes
• Proactively collaborating with engineering, product, and operations to identify customer pain points
• Providing guidance on technical direction and foundational investments that are expected to uplevel accuracy and efficiency of data-driven decisions across Trust
• Optimizing team operations to empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability, and simplicity
• Hiring and developing talents on your team
• Championing Airbnb’s culture of belonging

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation
• Experience working on user facing product surfaces, especially in search related product areas
• Strong product and design sense, can spot potential usability issues, provide alternative solutions and collaborate effectively with product, design and user research partners
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders
• Technical leadership: expertise in fullstack development and experience leading cross platform team(s), bonus if experienced in performance optimization / latency
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent

Benefits

• Base pay range of $204,000—$260,000 USD
• Bonus eligibility
• Equity options
• Employee Travel Credits