Lead a team of engineers building routing and decisioning capabilities that improve customer outcomes and operational efficiency.
Build and scale Skills Based Routing that better matches contacts to ambassador skills; enable Differentiated Service experiences that appropriately tailor support pathways to customer context - improving quality, speed, and customer satisfaction.
Contribute to Airbnb wide initiatives (e.g. Services, Experiences, multi-region resiliency) by aligning team capabilities with shared goals and ensuring smooth integration across dependencies.
Raise the bar on technical quality and execution through roadmap planning, clear ownership, and pragmatic architecture and design reviews.
Partner closely with Product, Data, Science, Operations, and adjacent engineering teams to drive success metrics (e.g., NPS, CSAT, time-to-resolution)
Champion customer-centric discovery: use qualitative insights alongside metrics to prioritize what will most improve the experience.
Develop talent and team health through coaching, feedback, and career development - creating an environment of high trust, inclusion, and accountability.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years managing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment; BS/MS in CS or a related field or equivalent experience.
Experience building and scaling distributed systems (e.g., service-oriented architectures, APIs, event-driven systems) through measurement & experimentation driven approaches.
Solid technical judgment; you can guide trade-offs, review designs, and keep delivery moving while maintaining quality.
Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous problem spaces into clear roadmaps, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Strong customer and product mindset: you care deeply about the end-to-end experience and use metrics and feedback loops to guide iteration.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills - you create clarity, align partners, and drive decisions without relying on hierarchy.
Demonstrated ability to hire and retain strong talent, and build an inclusive, high-accountability team culture.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with routing/matching systems, workflow orchestration, decisioning engines, or other optimization problem spaces.
Familiarity with customer support tooling and ecosystems (case management, contact channels, agent experience), and how they influence service quality.
Experience applying data science/ML or LLM-enabled techniques to improve automation, classification, triage, knowledge-retrieval or decision quality.
Experience building skill models/taxonomies (e.g., proficiency signals, intent classification) used to drive intelligent assignment and personalization.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringdistributed systemsservice-oriented architectureAPIsevent-driven systemsrouting systemsdecisioning enginesdata sciencemachine learningskill models

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationcustomer-centric mindsetcoachingfeedbackproblem-solvingteam buildinginclusivityaccountability

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science