Engineering Manager, User Foundation – Users, Identity & Community
Airbnb
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $204,000 - $255,000 per year
About the role
- Lead the team responsible for Airbnb’s authoritative user data model and its online APIs, and entity event interfaces.
- Define the multi‑year technical strategy for authoritative user data (individual + business) across online, offline, and events.
- Drive adoption of consistent source‑of‑truth interfaces so critical user data is read/written through governed systems.
- Establish and scale user data governance practices (cataloging, auditing, compliance-by-design, privacy-first defaults).
- Enable AI-powered experiences (e.g., personalization) by building high-quality, trusted, well-governed user data foundations that are safe and easy to use across AI products.
- Grow a high‑performing team that collaborates effectively across product and infrastructure organizations.
Requirements
- 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in engineering management (or equivalent leadership), including leading teams delivering foundational platforms or shared services.
- Strong background in distributed, large-scale backend and data systems: domain modeling, service interfaces (APIs), event-driven architectures, and offline data pipelines.
- Demonstrated success driving cross‑org adoption/migrations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Experience building systems with scale, performance, and data privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to define crisp technical vision, align teams, and influence without authority.
- Track record of inclusive leadership, talent development, and building high‑ownership teams.
- Experience with identity/user/account modeling at scale (individual + business entities, relationships, permissions, authentication and authorization concepts).
- Familiarity with data governance practices (cataloging, lineage, auditing, policy enforcement) and partnership with data platform and infrastructure teams.
- Experience partnering closely with Trust, Risk, Compliance, or Tax organizations, or understanding about compliance, data auditing, and data governance requirements in these domains.
- Experience evolving large systems through incremental migration strategies while maintaining product velocity.
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
user data modelAPIsentity event interfacesdomain modelingservice interfacesevent-driven architecturesoffline data pipelinesdata privacydata governanceidentity modeling
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluence without authorityinclusive leadershiptalent developmentcollaborationalignmentcross-organizational adoptionstakeholder managementbuilding high-ownership teams