Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb’s Marketing Technology organization builds platforms and measurement capabilities that help marketing and product teams engage customers across marketing channels. The Senior Staff Software Engineer will set technical strategy for the Content Platform, leading its evolution toward AI-driven campaign creation while solving cross-team technical challenges and partnering with stakeholders across the company.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Lead architecture and design reviews across the org, setting technical standards and driving consistency in engineering practices
• Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers, and act as a technical multiplier by scaling your judgment and expertise across the broader organization
• Partner directly with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing/business stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities and influence roadmap decisions at the org level
• Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums, driving adoption of best practices and shaping technical direction beyond your immediate team
• At 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
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, with experience driving initiatives that span teams, departments, and leadership
• Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems is a plus