Staff Software Engineer, Marketing technology

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

About the role

The mission at Marketing Technology is to provide a state-of-the-art platform and measurement capabilities to enable marketing and product teams to engage with our customers effectively. Every day, millions of Airbnb customers are reached via our streamlined platform over comprehensive marketing channels such as Email, Push, SMS, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc. We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest, Host, Airbnb Org, Policy, and more.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you'll provide hands-on technical leadership to build an agentic platform to quickly create onsite (airbnb.com) and offsite (emails, push notifications) content in a no-code manner. We are at an exciting inflection point, transforming the platform into an AI-driven system that can turn a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months. This full-stack team owns a complex CMS platform, no-code tool, rendering infrastructure, and now an agentic layer, all at scale where our content is consumed by millions of Airbnb users daily.

You'll work alongside a team of talented software engineers to build technology that helps Airbnb grow. You will also work closely with cross-functional partners across design, product, and marketing to solve problems that have direct growth impact on our business.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision for our platform with a product-first mindset.
• Lead and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and deployment.
• Participate in code and design reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve technical quality.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with engineering, marketing, creative, and design to drive impactful outcomes.
• At Staff+ level, our engineers are responsible for setting a technical vision and delivering solutions that are flexible, efficient, and scale with the needs of the business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in backend systems with large-scale service-oriented architecture.
• Hands-on experience architecting and developing agentic systems.
• Experience working in Java, and/or Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, caching solutions like Redis, and microservice architecture.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, and system quality.
• Strong communication skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments, and leadership.

Location

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. The list of excluded states is continuously evolving, so please check with your recruiter for the most up-to-date information.

Pay

Pay Range: $212,000—$265,000 USD. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.