Job brief: Engineering Manager, Marketing Technology

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Airbnb's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-11 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-11.
• The apply link opens careers.airbnb.com, the address Airbnb's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $212,000 to $265,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · United States - Remote · United States
• Posted: 2026-11-10

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Manager. The title says "Manager".

Must have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in an engineering management role leading platform or infrastructure teams

Conditions

• At the same time, both teams are standing up agentic capabilities: an agent-driven orchestration layer, end-to-end lifecycle testing agents, smart notification scheduling, and AI-…
• Your leadership will directly determine how reliably Airbnb communicates with its community, how confidently partner teams can build on the platform, and how effectively this team…
• Oversee the design, delivery, and operational health of production agentic systems: agent-driven orchestration, lifecycle testing agents, smart scheduling, and LLM-assisted on-cal…
• Champion AI-native development practices across both teams — from AI-assisted coding and review to agents in CI/CD, on-call response, and delivery anomaly detection

Main duties

• Lead planning, roadmap reviews, and cross-team syncs for Delivery and Orchestration, keeping delivery on track and stakeholders well-informed
• Serve as the primary engineering point of contact for cross-team dependencies — fielding requests from product teams across Airbnb and making clear, reasoned…
• Partner with the Product Manager to sequence the roadmap across journey orchestration, bulk campaign sends, and delivery infrastructure
• Drive technical strategy for end-to-end observability and SLA-driven delivery: campaign-level delivery tracking, health-gated ramping, dynamic pacing against…
• Own the health and operational maturity of both teams: daytime and 24/7 on-call programs, blameless incident retrospectives, SLO definitions, runbook quality…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for marketing jobs across the U.S.: $181k a year (236 listings, 45 employers). This listing is 32% higher.
• Across Airbnb's 26 open listings, 12% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Airbnb hires

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