Senior Backend Engineer — Segmentation & Insights (Remote)

Airbnb, Inc.

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 196,000 - 227,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Segmentation & Insights Platform to design, implement, and scale high‑volume backend systems that segment guests, hosts, and other entities.

You will own end‑to‑end projects, from technical design through production rollout, contributing to the Growth Engine and marketing‑driven experiences. You will work with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing Operations to translate marketing goals into platform capabilities, while maintaining

Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS, or equivalent experience.
Experience building backend systems with large-scale service-oriented architectures.
Experience building agentic or LLM-powered applications.
Proficiency in Go, Rust, Java, or Kotlin.
Strong communication skills and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

Scale the core platform to stay highly available, low latency, and observable.
Build agentic features for Airbnb's autonomous Marketing Growth Engine.
Lead projects across the full development lifecycle from design to production.
Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Marketing Ops, and partners to deliver platform capabilities.
On-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure reliability.
Use AI tools to run multiple workstreams while maintaining quality.