Airbnb
Technology
EngineeringManager,CoreEntities&TripIntelligence
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“Engineering Manager, Core Entities & Trip Intelligence at Airbnb. Skills: Entity Data Foundation, Trip Intelligence, Data Engineering, AI Products. Own entity data foundation. Lead engineering execution”
What You'll Achieve.
Ship high-quality data; Deliver reliable data; Build next generation AI products; Make trips better; Serve guests and hosts proactively; Aggregate signals into view
Industry & Context.
Resolve schema ambiguity; Surface competing representations; Resolve competing representations
Occasional office work, Attend offsites, Live in registered state
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
9+ years industry experience, 3-5+ years engineering management, Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field, Background in data engineering, platform engineering, or data infrastructure, Hands-on fluency with distributed data systems, Experience building in a cross-functional platform role, Comfort with greenfield work
Nice to Have
Entity modeling experience, Schema evolution experience, Data contracts experience, Building reliable systems experience, Batch and streaming pipelines experience, Online and offline serving experience, Event-driven architectures experience
What You'll Do.
Own entity data foundation
Lead engineering execution
Partner with data-producing teams
Onboard entities to semantic model
Drive attribute serving platform
Maintain health and governance contracts
Define and build trip intelligence
Own trip entity schema
Surface competing representations
Resolve competing representations
Drive real-time trip intelligence layer
Aggregate signals across trip lifecycle
Drive entity onboarding with producer teams
Unblock teams on data quality issues
Resolve schema ambiguity
Close gap between platform and owners
Lead technical design on trip entity
Partner with infrastructure teams
Drive state-of-the-art realtime data processing
Partner with product teams
Validate signal layer meets use cases
Manage and develop team
Represent entity platform work
Own careers of engineers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Producer teams; Downstream teams; Compute teams; Data infrastructure teams; Proactive trip support teams; Customer support triage teams; Host AI product teams; Principal engineer; Program manager; Executive leadership
Communication Scope
Represent technical decisions; Keep producers aligned; Keep consumers aligned
Process & Methodology
Roadmap sequencing
Full Job Description
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 connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: Marketplaces Data and AI is Airbnb's data and AI execution org, responsible for the machine learning, data engineering, and analytics systems that power how guests find the right place to stay and how hosts succeed on the platform. We build foundational data products used across Airbnb — by Trust, Customer Support, Search, and every team that needs a reliable, structured view of what is happening on our platform. The Core Entities program is the cornerstone of that foundation. It is the company's canonical semantic model for the objects that matter most to Airbnb — hosts, listings, users, and trips — and the events that happen across their lifecycles. This work feeds the intelligence layer that Airbnb's next generation of AI products depends on, and it is one of the top priorities for the company's engineering leadership. The Difference You Will Make: You will own two closely connected areas: Entity Data Foundation — The value of a shared entity platform depends entirely on producers shipping high-quality, well-modeled data that downstream teams can actually rely on. You will lead the engineering execution that makes this real: partnering with data-producing teams across the company to onboard their entities to the shared semantic model, driving the attribute serving platform that delivers over 1,700 quality and behavioral signals at production scale, and maintaining the health and governance contracts that give consumers confidence in the data they build on. This is platform work with direct product stakes — the teams consuming this data are building Airbnb's next generation of AI
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