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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb· Marketing Technology
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Hybrid (US - Remote Eligible)$248k - $310kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team responsible for guiding the technical direction of an AI-driven system that turns marketing briefs into campaigns, spanning CMS, no-code tools, rendering infrastructure, and an agentic layer at scale.

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, acting as a technical multiplier across the organization.
  • Partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing 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 the immediate team.
  • Operate with organization-wide scope and impact, setting technical direction that shapes how multiple teams build and scale, while remaining hands-on when necessary.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with leadership at organizational scale
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD in CS or equivalent experience
  • Deep expertise in backend systems, large-scale 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, Redis caching, and microservice architecture
  • Ability to set technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders with influence beyond a single team
  • Passion for efficiency, availability, and system quality at scale
  • Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems is a plus
  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills across teams, departments, and leadership

Skills

Required:Backend architectural leadershipJavaDistributed systemsAI / agentic systemsDatabase technologiesMicroservicesArchitectural reviews
Nice to have:KotlinLangGraphGraphQL

Benefits

  • Base pay: $248,000—$310,000 USD per year
  • Bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits eligibility (where applicable)
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.

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