10 Airbnb engineering leaders

Experience: Chief Technology Officer · Airbnb

Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb since January 2026, a C-level role in the Engineering and Technical department. He was VP, Head of GenAI at Meta (2020–2026) and held roles in the Special Project Group (2014–2021) and Imaging & Sensing Technology Group (2007–2014) at Apple.

Experience: Sr. Director of Engineering · Airbnb

Sr. Director of Engineering at Airbnb since August 2025, with a Director Of Engineering role at Airbnb dated from May 2022, both in the Engineering and Technical department. She was Director Of Engineering (2019–2022), Senior Engineering Manager (2015–2019) and Engineering Manager (2013–2015) at Twitter.

Experience: VP, Head of Tech Foundations · Airbnb

VP, Head of Tech Foundations at Airbnb since February 2026 and VP, Head of Infrastructure at Airbnb since November 2024. He says he leads Infrastructure, which powers Airbnb's internal AI, data, quality and reliability, developer platform and compute, along with Infosec and Enterprise Technology.

Experience: Director of Engineering, Growth Platform (Product & Engineering) · Airbnb

Director of Engineering, Growth Platform (Product & Engineering) at Airbnb since February 2020, where he says he leads the Growth Platform team, a 100+ person organization of product managers and engineers building foundational technology for Airbnb. He was Sr. Engineering Manager at Uber (2016–2020) and Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft (2013–2016).

Experience: Co-Founder & CTO · Airbnb

Former Co-Founder & CTO of Airbnb (2008–2016) and Co-Founder, CSO of Airbnb since 2017. The highlight describes him as Airbnb's co-founder and chief strategy officer, chairman of Airbnb China and the company's first chief technology officer. His profile also lists Software Engineer at OPNET Technologies, Inc. (2005–2006).

Experience: Vice President and Technical Fellow · Airbnb

Former Vice President and Technical Fellow at Airbnb (2024–2026), an Engineering and Technical role at the President/Vice President level. He was CTO at Humane (2019–2024) and Senior Director of Engineering at Apple (2013–2018), and has been a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since September 2026.

Experience: Director of Engineering · Airbnb

Director of Engineering at Airbnb since February 2026, leading a group supporting SEO/GEO, Homepage, Search UX and Map UX, following Head of Engineering, Search Product at Airbnb (2020–2026). She was Director Of Engineering, Consumer Experience at Yelp (2019–2020).

Experience: VP, Technical Fellow · Airbnb

Former VP, Technical Fellow at Airbnb (2019–2024), and a Technical Advisor at Airbnb since February 2024, which the highlight lists as current. He was also SVP and GM, Big Data Solutions at SAP (2016–2017), lists a sabbatical (2017–2019), and has been Chairman Of The Board at Aqfer since 2018.

Experience: Sr. Director of Engineering, Marketplace & Application Platforms · Airbnb

Sr. Director of Engineering, Marketplace & Application Platforms at Airbnb since August 2025, following Sr. Director of Engineering, Users, Listings and Platform (2020–2025) and GM of Homes Platform (2019–2020) at Airbnb. He says he has led engineering organizations of 250+ engineers at Airbnb responsible for the core supply platform powering 6M+ hosts.

Experience: Senior Director of Engineering · Airbnb

Senior Director of Engineering at Airbnb since February 2019, a role listed in San Francisco. He was Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com (2013–2019), Senior Software Architect at buuteeq Inc. (2007–2013) and Director, Enterprise Engineering at SDL International (2003–2007).