Remote Senior Staff Engineer, AI-Driven Content Platform

Nerdleveltech; United States; On-site; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform to define the technical direction for AI-driven campaigns at scale. You will own multi-year strategy across CMS, no-code tools, rendering infra, and emerging agentic layers, partnering with leadership across marketing and product.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to align roadmaps with business priorities, influencing engineering culture beyond your team.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on software engineering leadership at scale.
• Deep expertise in backend, distributed architectures.
• Experience architecting AI-driven production systems.
• Proven ability to drive multi-team technical strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Content Platform's technical vision and strategy.
• Lead architecture reviews and set engineering standards.
• Mentor senior engineers and scale technical capabilities.
• Collaborate with leadership, product, design, and marketing to align roadmaps.
• Represent the org in cross-team forums and drive best practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Backend systems

AI-driven systems

Java / Kotlin

GraphQL / NoSQL

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Master's/PhD in CS (preferred)

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform to define the technical direction for AI-driven campaigns at scale. You will own multi-year strategy across CMS, no-code tools, rendering infra, and emerging agentic layers, partnering with leadership across marketing and product.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to align roadmaps with business priorities, influencing engineering culture beyond your team.