Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$248,000–$310,000 / yr
Posted
90 days ago
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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $206,000–$255,000 across 44 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology joins the Content Platform team to lead the technical transformation into an AI-driven system. This role involves setting the multi-year technical strategy for a complex surface area including a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an emerging agentic layer. You will define architectural standards, resolve ambiguous cross-team technical challenges, and mentor senior engineers to ensure systems scale for millions of daily users. The position requires deep expertise in backend systems, distributed architectures, and production-level AI-driven systems. Required technologies include Java, Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, and Redis. You will solve the business problem of streamlining marketing workflows by enabling the rapid conversion of marketing briefs into fully realized campaigns across various global channels.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform organization.
  • Identify and resolve high-leverage, ambiguous technical problems spanning multiple teams or systems.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews to set technical standards and engineering consistency.
  • Mentor Staff and senior engineers to scale technical judgment and expertise across the organization.
  • Partner with leadership and stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities and roadmaps.
  • Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide forums to drive adoption of best practices.
  • Architect and scale agentic or AI-driven systems in production environments.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a track record of technical leadership at organizational scale.
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD degree 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, Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, 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 to drive initiatives across departments and leadership.
  • Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems (preferred).

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