Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments
Airbnb
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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.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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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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.
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