You will be a technical leader and a people leader, serving as a force multiplier for engineering teams across Airbnb’s global ecosystem. You will drive the transition to an AI-native quality model, ensuring that quality is intrinsic to every step of the developer journey.

• In this role, you will:
• Lead a High-Impact Team: Build and grow a world-class team of engineers. Foster a culture of Engineering Craft , ownership, and operational excellence.
• Drive Full-Cycle Platform Strategy: Define the roadmap for a unified quality platform that integrates Shift-Left methodologies with robust E2E automation, ensuring high-fidelity signals at every stage.
• Transform Quality with AI: Lead the adoption of AI-native approaches, leveraging LLMs for autonomous test discovery, predictive failure analysis, and self-healing E2E automation.
• Champion "Quality by Design": Influence how large-scale systems are built across Airbnb, ensuring that testability, modularity, and scalability are fundamental parts of our global architecture.
• Scale the Brazil Hub: Partner with the Brazil Site Lead and global leaders to establish operational rhythms, mentor talent, and build the Airbnb engineering brand in the region.
• A Typical Day:
• Strategic Leadership: Review technical designs and partner with tech leads to ensure our platform provides early feedback to developers while maintaining comprehensive E2E coverage.
• People & Culture: Coach and mentor engineers, driving career growth and fostering an inclusive team environment built on trust and belonging.
• Operational Excellence: Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks in our CI/CD pipelines and testing environments to improve developer velocity and release confidence.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate with global Infrastructure, Product, and Data leaders to promote full-cycle quality standards and align on shared technical priorities.
• Strategic Sourcing: Participate in recruiting, onboarding, and community-building efforts to scale our presence in the Brazil market.
• Your Expertise:
• Leadership Mastery: 3+ years of engineering management and 7+ years in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams.
• Platform & Infrastructure Mindset: Deep experience building or leading infrastructure, developer tooling, or large-scale distributed systems that serve internal engineering customers.
• Full-Cycle Testing Knowledge: A strong understanding of the entire testing pyramid, including unit, integration, and high-scale E2E automation frameworks.
• Strategic Execution: Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and drive complex technical strategies across geographic and organizational boundaries.
• Global Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills in English, with the ability to influence technical roadmaps and stakeholders across the globe. (Portuguese is a plus).
• Technical Pluses: Experience with Mobile Development (iOS/Android) or Applied AI/ML is highly valued but not required.
• Commitment to Craft: A passion for engineering excellence and a curiosity for how AI can redefine the relationship between speed and quality.
• 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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

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