Engineering Manager, Core Foundation

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Community You Will Join:

Core Foundation is a crossplatform team in Product Foundation that empowers product engineers to build highquality performant features across Android iOS and Web. We focus on: Insights & Logging Performance & App Health and Feature Architecture partnering closely with Platform (iOS/Android/Web) Analytics Infrastructure Data Platform and peer Product Foundation teams to provide cohesive paved paths and standards at scale.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will lead the team that underpins Airbnbs foundation solutions for client applications with the instrumentation performance guardrails architecture patterns and developerfriendly platforms that make durable scalable product development the default. Your leadership will:

Define the long term direction for client foundations and shape how product engineering is done across Airbnb.
Drive adoption of consistent crossplatform architecture and best practices for feature development.
Uplevel performance and app health through guardrails proactive insights and pavedpath tooling that shorten feedback loops for product teams.
Provide a unified highquality event logging experience that enables reliable datadriven decisions across surfaces and platforms.

A Typical Day:

Set vision and multi year tech direction for Core Foundation and translate them into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
Drive alignment across Platform Backend and Data and is accountable for influencing shared standards.
Partner with iOS/Android/Web Platform Analytics Infrastructure Data Platform and peer Product Foundation teams to align standards integrate capabilities and remove friction for product engineers.
Guide technical staff to enable lint/compilation rules observability defaults configuration patterns and drive adoption via documentation enablement and handson support.
Review designs for foundational systems balancing nearterm delivery with longterm maintainability and crossplatform consistency.
Manage operations and execution excellence: staffing prioritization delivery predictability incident learnings and iterative quality improvements.
Recruit coach and develop a highperforming inclusive team culture; grow senior technical leaders and future managers.

Your Expertise:

10 years of industry experience with 5 years in engineering management; demonstrated success leading crossfunctional or crossplatform foundation/platform teams.
Proven track record establishing clientside performance/health practices and observability and driving adoption of pavedpath tooling and standards at scale.
Handson background in at least one client platform (iOS Android or Web) with fluency in modern app and feature architecture patterns; comfort collaborating across all three.
Experience building or stewarding event logging/instrumentation platforms and improving data quality for analytics and experimentation.
Strong crossorg influence and stakeholder management with Platform Product Design and Data partners; clear persuasive written and verbal communication.
Commitment to inclusive leadership talent development and building psychologically safe highownership teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with crossplatform consistency initiatives (e.g. shared patterns naming and capabilities) and developer experience investments that accelerate product velocity.
Familiarity with configuration and serverdriven paradigms and their impact on client architecture and experimentation workflows.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible you must live in a state where Airbnb Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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.

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Required Experience:

Manager

The Community You Will Join:Core Foundation is a crossplatform team in Product Foundation that empowers product engineers to build highquality performant features across Android iOS and Web. We focus on: Insights & Logging Performance & App Health and Feature Architecture partnering closely with Pla...