# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $248k – $310k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Java, Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, Redis, Microservices, Distributed Systems, ai systems, Agentic Systems, backend engineering, NoSQL, Relational Databases
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Senior Staff Software Engineer leading the transformation of Airbnb's Content Platform into an AI-driven system that rapidly generates marketing campaigns. Owns technical strategy across CMS, authoring tools, rendering, and agentic layers at massive scale while mentoring engineers and influencing org-wide standards.

## Job Description

## The Difference You Will Make
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Content Platform team, you'll set the technical direction for the org's transformation into an AI-driven system that turns a marketing brief into a fully realized campaign in minutes, not months. You'll own the technical strategy across a complex, multi-team surface area spanning a CMS platform, no-code authoring tools, rendering infrastructure, and an emerging agentic layer, all operating at a scale where the content produced is consumed by millions of Airbnb users daily. You will partner with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing stakeholders across the company to define multi-year technical strategy, resolve the org's hardest cross-team technical challenges, and raise the bar for engineering excellence across Marketing Technology.

## A Typical Day
As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on Content Platform, you will:

- Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org, ensuring architectural decisions scale across teams and align with broader company technology direction.
- Identify and resolve the highest-leverage, most ambiguous technical problems that span multiple teams or systems, often before they become visible to others.
- Lead architecture and design reviews across the org, setting technical standards and driving consistency in engineering practices.
- Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers, and act as a technical multiplier by scaling your judgment and expertise across the broader organization.
- Partner directly with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing/business stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities and influence roadmap decisions at the org level.
- Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums, driving adoption of best practices and shaping technical direction beyond your immediate team.

At Senior Staff level, our engineers are expected to operate with organization-wide scope and impact, setting technical direction that shapes how multiple teams build and scale, while remaining deeply hands-on when it matters most.

## Your Expertise
- 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a track record of technical leadership at organizational scale
- Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Deep expertise in backend systems and large-scale, service-oriented and distributed architectures
- Proven experience architecting and scaling agentic or AI-driven systems in production
- Experience with Java, and/or Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, caching solutions like Redis, and microservice architecture
- Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders, with a track record of influencing engineering culture and standards beyond a single team
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, and system quality at scale
- Past experience with Marketing Technology or Growth platform systems is a plus
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills, with experience driving initiatives that span teams, departments, and leadership

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