Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology at Airbnb | CA, US | Rezi

Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology at Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb · CA, US

4 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

Airbnb · CA, US

5 days ago
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About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Segmentation & Insights Platform team, you'll lead projects end-to-end and help shape how Airbnb reaches its guests and hosts. Our team builds the high-scale backend systems that segment guests, hosts, and other entities. These systems handle 100k+ requests per second and power marketing, in-app experiences, and many other use cases across Airbnb. We’re also building the agentic workflows behind the future of Marketing Technology and Airbnb’s autonomous Growth Engine. You’ll take on ambiguous problems across both areas, driving them independently from design through launch.

Responsibilities

  • Scale the core platform to maintain high availability, low latency, and observability.
  • Debug complex issues, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems for growing demand.
  • Build agentic features for Airbnb's autonomous Marketing Growth Engine, focusing on campaign ideation and refinement.
  • Lead projects through the full development lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and production rollout.
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Marketing Operations, and other partners to translate marketing goals into platform capabilities.
  • Partner with other engineering teams within Marketing Technology to develop integrated systems.
  • Assist teams across Airbnb in adopting services by providing guidance on use cases, integrations, and system improvements.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure the reliability of systems serving millions of users.
  • Utilize AI tools for efficient work and parallel workstream management, while maintaining ownership of quality and long-term system health.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
  • Expertise in backend systems with large-scale service-oriented architecture
  • Experience building agentic systems or LLM-powered applications
  • Proficiency in one or more modern languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or Kotlin
  • Passionate about learning, driving impact, and moving fast without sacrificing quality
  • Strong communication skills with experience driving initiatives that cross teams, organizations, and leadership

Skills

  • Backend systems
  • Large-scale service-oriented architecture
  • Agentic systems
  • LLM-powered applications
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Communication skills

Location

  • US - Remote Eligible

Work Type

  • Remote

Experience Level

  • Senior

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Master's degree
  • PhD
  • Equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

  • $196,000—$227,000 USD

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Employee Travel Credits

About the Company

  • 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.
  • 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, and Facebook Ads.
  • We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest, Host, Airbnb Org, Policy, and more.

Equal Opportunity

  • Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible.
  • We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions.
  • All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
  • We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.
  • If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.
  • Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
  • If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.