Senior Systems Engineer, Content & AI Workflows

airbnb, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Tech Foundations team in the United States. You will own large-scale content systems, build author-facing tools, and partner with product, engineering, and content teams to streamline authoring workflows and analytics.

Role requires leading multi-workstream initiatives, writing clear design documents, mentoring engineers, and designing for reliability, security, and observability across the content platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and implementing complex systems end to end in integrated enterprise environments.
• Experience building and maintaining custom author-facing tools, workflows, automations, and integrations in an enterprise headless CMS (Contentstack preferred).
• Own delivery on projects spanning multiple workstreams, including undefined starting points.
• Depth in front-end and back-end development, preferably with TypeScript, React, and Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Deliver major projects end to end across multiple workstreams, leading a small engineering pod when needed.
• Partner with content teams to map and improve authoring workflows and translate them into technical requirements.
• Own the authoring platform by extending Contentstack with UI extensions and React apps within Airbnb’s Design Language System.

Skills

Systems engineering

Enterprise systems

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Data analysis

APIs

Knowledge graph

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Contentstack

Tableau

Grafana

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for the Tech Foundations team in the United States. You will own large-scale content systems, build author-facing tools, and partner with product, engineering, and content teams to streamline authoring workflows and analytics.

Role requires leading multi-workstream initiatives, writing clear design documents, mentoring engineers, and designing for reliability, security, and observability across the content platform.