Senior Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform organization.
• Resolve complex technical problems spanning multiple teams and systems.
• Lead architecture and design reviews and establish technical standards.
• Mentor Staff and senior engineers and scale technical judgment across the organization.
• Partner with engineering, product, design, marketing, and business stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities.
• Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums and influence broader engineering direction.
• Remain hands-on while setting organization-wide technical direction for AI-driven marketing content systems.

Requirements

• 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with organizational-scale technical leadership.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in backend systems and large-scale, service-oriented, and distributed architectures.
• Experience architecting and scaling agentic or AI-driven systems in production.
• Experience with Java and/or Kotlin, LangGraph, GraphQL, relational and NoSQL databases, and Redis.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Experience influencing engineering culture and standards beyond a single team.
• Strong focus on efficiency, availability, and system quality at scale.
• Marketing Technology or Growth platform experience is preferred.
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence skills.

Benefits

• US remote eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with the manager.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.