Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering

São Paulo - Brazil

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Community You Will Join:

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own the continuous improvement of Airbnbs test automation tools environments and frameworks. We navigate Airbnbs massive codebase identifying weak spots and help design and implement testable fault tolerant systems.

As we establish a new engineering hub in Brazil this team will anchor Airbnbs growth in the region focusing on foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities that enable our global engineering teams to innovate faster.

You will be joining during a defining phasehelping to shape a new office culture establish best practices and deliver technical impact that scales globally.

The Difference You Will Make:

Were looking for an engineering leader with a strong technical background to invest in testability at Airbnb. As an Engineering Manager of Quality Engineering within the Brazil hub you will lead a local engineering team focused on test automation and helping to shape the vision technical strategy/roadmap and for improving the quality of software at Airbnb. You will help build out Airbnbs testing infrastructure testing data and testing frameworks leveraging automation and AI. We are looking for a leader who wants to join us on this journey to enable testability in all parts of the software development lifecycle.

You will work closely with the Brazil Site Lead and global Infra leaders to build a cohesive team culture attract top technical talent and deliver high-impact projects that directly advance Airbnbs platform capabilities.

A Typical Day:

Define and promote a quality mindset and strategy across the organization by creating a vision that drives QE policies programs and initiatives.
Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers; empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity reliability and simplicity.
Drive a sense of trust and belonging and build inclusive teams with world class talent.
Build and maintain our testing environments testing data and testing frameworks working through ambiguity concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to analyze internal/external failures and suggest corrective and preventive action.
Use a data-based approach to help resolve internal quality issues to prevent defects in code shipment.
Partner with global Infra leadership to execute the Brazil sites technical roadmap.
Drive excellence in technical design reliability scalability and efficiency across projects.
Collaborate cross-functionally with global teams to ensure alignment on architecture tooling and standards.
Coach and mentor engineers fostering career growth and a culture of continuous learning.
Participate in recruiting onboarding and community-building efforts to scale the Brazil hub.
Support the Site Lead in establishing operational rhythms and local engineering excellence.

Your Expertise:

3 years of engineering management and 7 years of industry experience in a space with a strong focus on developer tooling testing or quality engineering.
Strong familiarity with software engineering principles including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms design patterns and code quality practices.
Demonstrated ability in the creation of testing standards tools and methodology
Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
Led projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution
Proven experience leading distributed or regional engineering teams and driving technical outcomes.
Skilled in mentoring engineers and creating strong team dynamics across cultural and geographic boundaries.
Be an agent of change inside the organization and be comfortable leading through ambiguity
Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to align local execution to a global strategy.
Fluent in English; Portuguese proficiency preferred.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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: . Please include your full name the role youre applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

Required Experience:

Manager

The Community You Will Join: The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own the continuous improvement of Airbnbs test automation tools environments and frameworks. We navigate Airbnbs massive cod...