Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb•San Francisco, CA

2d•$196,000 - $227,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on Airbnb’s Segmentation & Insights Platform team within Marketing Technology, you will lead projects end-to-end and help shape how Airbnb reaches guests and hosts. The team builds high-scale backend systems that segment guests, hosts, and other entities. These systems handle more than 100,000 requests per second and support marketing, in-app experiences, and other use cases across Airbnb. The team is also building agentic workflows for the future of Marketing Technology and Airbnb’s autonomous Growth Engine. You will independently take on ambiguous problems across these areas, from design through launch. The position is US remote eligible, subject to living in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. It may involve occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager. The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

5+ years of software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD, preferably in computer science, or equivalent experience.
Expertise in backend systems with large-scale service-oriented architecture.
Experience building agentic systems or LLM-powered applications.
Proficiency in one or more modern languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or Kotlin.
Strong communication skills and experience driving initiatives across teams, organizations, and leadership.

Nice To Haves

A degree in computer science.

Responsibilities

Scale the core platform to maintain high availability, low latency, and observability; debug difficult problems, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems for growing demand.
Build agentic features for Airbnb’s autonomous Marketing Growth Engine, primarily contributing to campaign ideation and refinement.
Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and production rollout.
Work with Product, Design, Data, Marketing Operations, and other partners to translate marketing goals into platform capabilities.
Partner with engineering teams across Marketing Technology to build integrated systems.
Help teams across Airbnb adopt the services by advising on use cases, guiding integrations, and improving system ease of adoption.
Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to maintain the reliability of systems serving millions of guests and hosts.
Use AI tools to work efficiently and manage multiple workstreams while owning the quality, correctness, and long-term health of shipped work.