Engineering Manager Quality jobs at Airbnb in Brazil, São Paulo

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Staff Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by driving the strategy towards comprehensive automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.

A Typical Day:

• Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases.
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Kotlin, Java) and strong scripting skills
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Espresso)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Community You Will Join:

You will be joining during a defining phase—helping to shape a new office culture, establish best practices, and deliver technical impact that scales globally.

A Typical Day:

• Define and promote a quality mindset and strategy across the organization, by creating a vision that drives QE policies, programs and initiatives.
• Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers; empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Drive a sense of trust and belonging, and build inclusive teams with world class talent.
• Build and maintain our testing environments, testing data, and testing frameworks, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to analyze internal/external failures, and suggest corrective and preventive action.
• Use a data-based approach to help resolve internal quality issues to prevent defects in code shipment.
• Partner with global Infra leadership to execute the Brazil site’s technical roadmap.
• Drive excellence in technical design, reliability, scalability, and efficiency across projects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with global teams to ensure alignment on architecture, tooling, and standards.
• Coach and mentor engineers, fostering career growth and a culture of continuous learning.
• Participate in recruiting, onboarding, and community-building efforts to scale the Brazil hub.
• Support the Site Lead in establishing operational rhythms and local engineering excellence.
  

Your Expertise:

• 3+ years of engineering management and 7+ years of industry experience, in a space with a strong focus on developer tooling, testing, or quality engineering.
• Strong familiarity with software engineering principles, including object-oriented and functional programming paradigms, design patterns, and code quality practices.
• Demonstrated ability in the creation of testing standards, tools and methodology
• Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
• Led projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution
• Proven experience leading distributed or regional engineering teams and driving technical outcomes.
• Skilled in mentoring engineers and creating strong team dynamics across cultural and geographic boundaries.
• Be an agent of change inside the organization and be comfortable leading through ambiguity
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align local execution to a global strategy.
• Fluent in English; Portuguese proficiency preferred.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Senior Android Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining our test tools/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company and product, the tests, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to the expectations of our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the test coverage, tooling and frameworks necessary to assure that our product workflows deliver a seamless high quality experience for our customers.

A Typical Day:

• Leverage AI and build, maintain and support our platforms - testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise Android development and testing
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work closely with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Demonstrable knowledge in Kotlin, Java and Espresso
• Demonstrated expertise in developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing Android mobile applications at a large scale
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You will Make:

As a Senior Market Manager, you will oversee the overall supply health of key Airbnb markets in Brazil, ensuring a strong presence of high-quality listings. Your role is pivotal in expanding our host network, optimizing supply, and driving market growth.

A Typical Day:

• Build, manage, and grow partner relationships within your territory to exceed quarterly sales targets across 100+ Professional Host accounts.
• Conduct optimization calls and business reviews to strengthen partnerships, providing exceptional and timely support, including in-person meetings as needed.
• Develop strategies to manage and optimize thousands of professional hosts in your region effectively.
• Prospect and onboard new high-quality supply in your assigned geography.
• Educate clients on product updates and relay feedback to internal stakeholders.
• Leverage data to identify strategic growth opportunities, navigate operational complexities, and allocate resources efficiently.
• Foster innovation by implementing unique engagement projects using an entrepreneurial approach.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, communications, public policy, legal, tax, and customer support teams to drive long-term market success.
• Analyze local market trends to provide insights for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support technical partnerships to ensure a seamless experience for hosts and guests.
• Represent Airbnb in external meetings with professional hosts and at industry conferences, reinforcing the brand's presence.
• Contribute to host community programs to drive growth and engagement across the Airbnb community.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of experience in account management and partner support, with a proven ability to foster and grow business relationships.
• Proven success in managing a leads pipeline and a book of business, effectively nurturing and converting opportunities.
• Strong quantitative skills with the ability to interpret and apply data for day-to-day decision-making.
• Adaptability to work at both strategic and tactical levels, with a history of executing effectively in ambiguous environments.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience , ensuring alignment and success across teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage clients via phone, email, and in-person.
• Self-starter with strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• CRM proficiency (Salesforce experience is a plus), with expertise in managing leads, opportunities, and core CRM objects.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English — Spanish is a plus — to operate effectively across South America's diverse markets.
• 2+ years of tech/travel industry experience is a plus, showcasing sector-specific knowledge.
• Willingness to travel regularly within your assigned territory and internationally (once every 4 to 6 weeks), based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Passion for Airbnb, travel, and the sharing economy — being an Airbnb host is a plus — reflecting alignment with the company’s mission and culture.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The difference you will make:

As a Market Manager, you will oversee the overall supply health of key Airbnb markets in Spanish South America, ensuring a strong presence of high-quality listings. Your role is pivotal in expanding our host network, optimizing supply, and driving market growth.

A typical day:

• Build, manage, and grow partner relationships within your territory to exceed quarterly sales targets across 125+ Professional Host accounts.
• Conduct optimization calls and business reviews to strengthen partnerships, providing exceptional and timely support, including in-person meetings as needed.
• Develop strategies to manage and optimize thousands of professional hosts in your region effectively.
• Prospect and onboard new high-quality supply in your assigned geography.
• Educate clients on product updates and relay feedback to internal stakeholders.
• Leverage data to identify strategic growth opportunities, navigate operational complexities, and allocate resources efficiently.
• Foster innovation by implementing unique engagement projects using an entrepreneurial approach.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, communications, public policy, legal, tax, and customer support teams to drive long-term market success.
• Analyze local market trends to provide insights for internal and external stakeholders.
• Support technical partnerships to ensure a seamless experience for hosts and guests.
• Represent Airbnb in external meetings with professional hosts and at industry conferences, reinforcing the brand's presence.
• Contribute to host community programs to drive growth and engagement across the Airbnb community.

Your expertise:

• 8+ years of experience in account management and partner support, with a proven ability to foster and grow business relationships.
• Proven success in managing a leads pipeline and a book of business, effectively nurturing and converting opportunities.
• Strong quantitative skills with the ability to interpret and apply data for day-to-day decision-making.
• Adaptability to work at both strategic and tactical levels, with a history of executing effectively in ambiguous environments.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience, ensuring alignment and success across teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage clients via phone, email, and in-person.
• Self-starter with strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
• CRM proficiency (Salesforce experience is a plus), with expertise in managing leads, opportunities, and core CRM objects.
• Fluency in Spanish, Portuguese and English — to operate effectively across South America's diverse markets.
• 4+ years of travel industry experience is a plus, showcasing sector-specific knowledge.
• 2+ years of tech industry experience is a plus, showcasing sector-specific knowledge.
• Willingness to travel regularly within your assigned territory and internationally (once every 4 to 6 weeks), based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Passion for Airbnb, travel, and the sharing economy — being an Airbnb host is a plus — reflecting alignment with the company’s mission and culture.

This role requires candidates to be based in São Paulo, Brazil. This role is not eligible for relocation support.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil