Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Role Overview

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you’ll set the technical direction for the org’s transformation into an AI-driven system that turns a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months. You’ll own the technical strategy across a complex, multi-team surface area spanning a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an emerging agentic layer, all operating at a scale where the content produced is consumed by millions of Airbnb users daily.

What You Will Do

Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org, ensuring architectural decisions scale across teams and align with broader company technology direction. Identify and resolve the highest-leverage, most ambiguous technical problems that span multiple teams or systems, often before they become visible to others.

Why It Might Be a Fit

As a Senior Staff level, our engineers are expected to operate with organization-wide scope and impact, setting technical direction that shapes how multiple teams build and scale, while remaining deeply hands-on when it matters most.

Requirements

• 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a track record of technical leadership at organizational scale
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s/PhD degree, preferably 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, and/or Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, caching solutions like Redis, and microservice architecture
• Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders, with a track record of influencing engineering culture and standards beyond a single team
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, and system quality at scale
• Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems is a plus
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, with experience driving initiatives that span teams, departments, and leadership

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits