Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI-Driven Marketing Tech (Remote)

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Content Platform to set the technical direction of our AI-driven campaign system, spanning a CMS, no-code tools, rendering infrastructure, and emerging agentic layers. The role requires leadership across multi-team surfaces with a hands-on approach when it matters most, delivering scalable solutions for millions of users.

You will partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing to define long-term strategy, elevate

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with leadership at scale.
• Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD in CS or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Proven architecting and scaling of AI-driven systems in production.
• Experience with Java and/or Kotlin, GraphQL, databases, caching, and microservices.
• Ability to set technical vision and influence across teams and leadership.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, and quality at scale.
• Experience in Marketing Technology or Growth platforms is a plus.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional influence across orgs.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for Content Platform across teams.
• Resolve high-leverage, ambiguous problems spanning multiple systems.
• Lead architecture and design reviews and set engineering standards.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical multiplier.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and marketing to align strategy with business goals.
• Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums and drive best practices.
• Operate with organization-wide scope and impact while remaining hands-on when needed.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend systems

AI-driven systems

Distributed architectures

Cross-functional influence

Communication

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD

Tools

Java/Kotlin

LangGraph

GraphQL

Relational DB

NoSQL DB

Redis

Microservices

Job description

Airbnb seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Content Platform to set the technical direction of our AI-driven campaign system, spanning a CMS, no-code tools, rendering infrastructure, and emerging agentic layers. The role requires leadership across multi-team surfaces with a hands-on approach when it matters most, delivering scalable solutions for millions of users.

You will partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing to define long-term strategy, elevate