Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

The role

You will lead projects to build and scale high-scale backend systems for the Segmentation & Insights Platform. You will develop agentic features for the autonomous Marketing Growth Engine and work across the full development lifecycle.

What you will do

• Scale the core platform for high availability, low-latency, and observability
• Debug problems, find bottlenecks, and optimize systems
• Build agentic features for the autonomous Marketing Growth Engine
• Lead projects from technical design through production rollout
• Work with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing Operations to turn goals into platform capabilities
• Partner with other engineering teams to build integrated systems
• Advise teams on onboarding to services and guiding integrations
• Take part in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems
• Use AI tools to work efficiently while owning quality and long-term health

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD
• 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 with experience driving initiatives across teams, organizations, and leadership

Nice to have

• Degree in CS

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 to enable marketing and product teams to engage with customers.