Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

What you'll do

• Scale core backend systems to maintain high availability, low latency, and observability for 100k+ requests per second.
• Build agentic features for the autonomous Marketing Growth Engine to support campaign ideation and refinement.
• Lead projects through the full development lifecycle including technical design, implementation, testing, and production rollout.
• Translate marketing goals into platform capabilities by partnering with Product, Design, and Data teams.
• Advise internal teams on service onboarding, integration guidance, and system usability improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure system reliability.
• Utilize AI tools to manage multiple workstreams while ensuring the quality and long-term health of shipped code.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS, or equivalent experience (preferred).
• 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.
• Ability to live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.