Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Overview

Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, setting the technical direction for an AI-driven system that turns marketing briefs into campaigns, across a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an agentic layer.

What you'll do

• Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org, ensuring architectural decisions scale across teams and align with 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 broader organization.
• Partner 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.

What you'll need

• 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 have

• Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems.

Details

• Location: US - Remote Eligible; must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity (excluded states list applies).
• May include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager.
• Pay range: $248,000 - $310,000 USD base; may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.