Airbnb
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology
$248K–$310K
Remote, USA +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 29, 2026
- Location
- Remote, USA
United States - Experience
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical strategy and leads architecture for Airbnb’s Content Platform, building systems that enable AI-driven marketing campaign creation at scale.
What you'll do
- Define and drive technical vision, architecture, and standards across the Content Platform organization.
- Resolve complex technical challenges spanning teams and systems, while mentoring senior engineers.
- Partner with engineering, product, design, and marketing stakeholders to align strategy and influence roadmaps.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including organizational-scale technical leadership.
- Deep expertise in backend systems and large-scale, service-oriented, 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.
Nice to have
- Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems.
Pay
$248,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, Redis, microservice architecture
AI focus
Set technical direction for an AI-driven system that turns marketing briefs into campaigns; architect and scale agentic or AI-driven systems in production.
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