Manager, Engineering, Dev AI

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 conne...

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 so...

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, from agentic coding tools and asynchronous AI workflow platforms, to SDKs for rapid internal AI app development and AI-assisted code migration. At...

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)

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