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Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality)
Airbnb · 🇺🇸 United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 167 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 71 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Airbnb paid sponsored hires in similar roles6 certified filings for “Engineering Manager” (Architectural and Engineering Managers) in CA: $214k–$250k, median $233k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Airbnb
The US Department of Labor certified 167 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 71 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 As the Engineering Manager for the Insights Platform on Airbnb's Guest & Host team, you'll lead the system that decides what every host is told about improving their earnings, quality and listings. It delivers that guidance across email, push notifications, in-product experiences, dashboards and conversational agents. You'll lead a team of senior and staff engineers across data engineering, machine learning and backend through the platform's next evolution: from batch to real-time and from rules-based to model-driven, with AI-assisted insight creation and personalization at its core. The team partners closely with product, design and data science, and with teams across Airbnb that rely on the platform to reach hosts. A Typical Day: • Work closely with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision • Partner with senior Product, Design and Data Science leaders to set platform strategy, including how insights are ranked, personalized and measured. • Lead the team to build reliable, performant and scalable systems for insight creation, personalization, cross-channel delivery and measurement. • Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction. • Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps. • Identify areas of improvement and drive best practices • Hands-on development, including design and code reviews • Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors Your Expertise: • 10+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry; 5+ years of experience in an Engineering Manager role, with ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems. • Strong product judgment, exercised through data. You understand the data behind user behavior and outcomes, spot patterns, and turn them into product and platform decisions. • Track record of setting and holding a multi-year technical direction on a live, business-critical platform. This includes leading a major re-architecture or transition, such as batch to real-time or rules-based to model-driven, while continuing to deliver. • Depth in backend, data or ML platforms, with the ability to understand and represent data engineering, machine learning and backend engineering. Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, and real-time or streaming architectures. • Experience applying ML and LLMs in production to personalize or rank what users see, and using experimentation and measurement to prove impact. • Experience managing and growing senior and staff engineers, and creating an environment where they own initiatives end to end. • Strong communication and influence with technical and non-technical partners. Demonstrated ability to set shared standards and align multiple teams and organizations on a common platform approach. • A proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging, within the organization and across the tech community 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 wit