Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$248,000–$310,000 / yr
Posted
43 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $279k
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This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $176,812–$222,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $279k versus about $200k for comparable roles.

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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 65 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $200,000–$240,000 across 51 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology, you will join the Content Platform team to drive the technical direction of an AI-driven system designed to transform marketing briefs into realized campaigns. You will own the technical strategy across a complex surface area including a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an emerging agentic layer. Your daily responsibilities involve resolving high-leverage technical problems, leading architecture reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business priorities. You will utilize expertise in Java, Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, Redis, and microservice architecture while managing relational and NoSQL databases. This role focuses on solving the challenge of scaling marketing content across multiple channels like Email, Push, and SMS for a high-volume platform where content is consumed by millions of users daily.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform organization.
  • Lead the transition of marketing systems into an AI-driven platform to automate campaign creation.
  • Resolve complex, high-leverage technical problems that span multiple teams and systems.
  • Conduct architecture and design reviews to set technical standards across the entire organization.
  • Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers to scale technical expertise across the company.
  • Partner with leadership and stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities.
  • Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide forums to shape broader engineering practices.

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, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science 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.
  • Proficiency with Java, Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, Redis, and microservice architecture.
  • Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and caching solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and influence engineering culture across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills to drive initiatives across departments and leadership.

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