Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb

1d•$248,000 - $310,000•Remote

About The Position

Our mission at Marketing Technology is to provide a state-of-the-art platform and measurement capabilities to enable marketing and product teams to engage with our customers effectively. Every day, millions of Airbnb customers are reached via our streamlined platform over comprehensive marketing channels such as Email, Push, SMS, Google Ads, Facebook Ads etc. We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest, Host, Airbnb Org, Policy, and more. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for the org's transformation into an AI-driven system that turns a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months. You'll own the technical strategy across a complex, multi-team surface area spanning a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an emerging agentic layer, all operating at a scale where the content produced is consumed by millions of Airbnb users daily. You will partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing stakeholders across the company to define multi-year technical strategy, resolve the org's hardest cross-team technical challenges, and raise the bar for engineering excellence across Marketing Technology.

Requirements

15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a track record of technical leadership at organizational scale
Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Deep expertise in backend systems and large-scale, service-oriented and distributed architectures
Proven experience architecting and scaling agentic or AI-driven systems in production
Experience with Java, and/or Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, caching solutions like Redis, and microservice architecture
Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders, with a track record of influencing engineering culture and standards beyond a single team
Passionate about efficiency, availability, and system quality at scale
Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, with experience driving initiatives that span teams, departments, and leadership

Nice To Haves

Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems is a plus

Responsibilities

Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org, ensuring architectural decisions scale across teams and align with broader company technology direction.
Identify and resolve the highest-leverage, most ambiguous technical problems that span multiple teams or systems, often before they become visible to others.
Lead architecture and design reviews across the org, setting technical standards and driving consistency in engineering practices.
Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers, and act as a technical multiplier by scaling your judgment and expertise across the broader organization.
Partner directly with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing/business stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities and influence roadmap decisions at the org level.
Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums, driving adoption of best practices and shaping technical direction beyond your immediate team.