Airbnb
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology
Remote, USA. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will set the technical direction for the Content Platform to transform it into an AI-driven system. You will own technical strategy across CMS platforms, no-code tools, and rendering infrastructure. You will partner with leadership and stakeholders to define multi-year strategy and resolve complex technical challenges.
What you will do
- Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org
- Identify and resolve high-leverage, ambiguous technical problems across multiple teams
- Lead architecture and design reviews across the org
- Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers
- Partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing stakeholders
- Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums
- Operate with organization-wide scope and impact
- Remain deeply hands-on when it matters most
Required qualifications
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Track record of technical leadership at organizational scale
- Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD degree
- 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
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills
Nice to have
- Degree preferably in CS
- Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Before you apply
- You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
About the company
Airbnb was born in 2007 and has grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals. The company provides a platform for hosts to offer unique stays and experiences.