Airbnb Engineering Manager Quality 

Brazil, São Paulo, São Paulo 

553163652

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