Staff Software Engineer, Marketing technology

Visa Hunt; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team to provide hands-on technical leadership for an AI-driven, no-code content platform that can turn a marketing brief into a full campaign in minutes. This role covers a full-stack CMS, rendering, and an agentic layer, serving millions of Airbnb users daily.

You will work with design, product, and marketing to solve growth-impacting problems, mentor engineers, and drive scalable technical vision across the platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Bachelor's and/or Master/PhD's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in backend systems with large-scale service-oriented architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision for our platform with a product-first mindset.
• Lead and contribute to the full development cycle: design, implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to solve problems that impact growth.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's and/or Master/PhD in CS

Job description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Our mission at Marketing Technology is to provide a state-of-the-art platform and measurement capabilities to enable marketing and product teams to engage with our customers effectively. Every day, millions of Airbnb customers are reached via our streamlined platform over comprehensive marketing channels such as Email, Push, SMS, Google Ads, Facebook Ads etc. We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest, Host, Airbnb Org, Policy, and more.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you'll provide hands-on technical leadership to build an agentic platform to quickly create onsite (airbnb.com) and offsite (emails, push notifications) content in a no-code manner. We are at an exciting inflection point. transforming the platform into an AI-driven system that can turn a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months. This full stack team owns a complex CMS platform, no-code tool, rendering infrastructure and now an agentic layer, all at scale where our content is consumed by millions of Airbnb users daily. You'll work alongside a team of talented software engineers to build technology that helps Airbnb grow. You will also work closely with cross-functional partners across design, product, and marketing to solve problems that have direct growth impact on our business.

A Typical Day:

As a Staff Software Engineer on Content Platform, you will:

• Define and drive the technical vision for our platform with a product-first mindset.
• Lead and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and deployment.
• Participate in code and design reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve technical quality
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with engineering, marketing, creative, and design to drive impactful outcomes.

At Staff+ level, our engineers are responsible for setting a technical vision and delivering solutions that are flexible, efficient, and scale with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership, and technical expertise to solve these challenges for Airbnb.

Your Expertise :

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Bachelor's and/or Master/PhD's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Expertise in backend systems with large-scale service-oriented architecture
• Hand