Senior Software Engineer, Content Platform

Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Marketing Technology’s Content Platform team to provide technical leadership in building a no-code or low-code platform for marketing communications, ensuring high-quality delivery and system uptime.

Responsibilities:

• Work with cross-functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to design and deliver high-quality products across multiple channels that directly contribute to Airbnb’s revenue
• Lead efforts to architect and build technology for serving marketing content to guests and hosts across Airbnb’s stack—including our web frontends, GraphQL API gateway & business logic layer, and storage layer
• Make heavy use of our mature DevAI stack to explore, build and verify your work
• Think user first: you might optimize user experience page performance by improving our rendering layer, or how we fan out and fetch data in the backend
• Work with customers to identify usability issues and proactively fix them
• Build relationships with engineers in product orgs (e.g. Relevance, Stays, Experiences) and partner with them to support company-wide initiatives

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers
• Demonstrated comfort in working in a fullstack environment—you might be a backend expert, but are happy building client components; or a client expert who is happy building efficient APIs
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
• Proven experience in defining product strategy and helping drive alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams
• San Francisco Bay Area Location preferred
• If you've worked in and/or have opinions about the current state of Marketing Technology
• If you have demonstrable Agentic AI experience with production applications, or have explored enough in your spare time to be able to speak to it