Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

• 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, 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.

The Difference You Will Make:

• 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.

A Typical Day:

• Scale the core platform so it stays highly available, low-latency, and observable. You'll debug hard problems, find bottlenecks, and optimize systems to keep up with growing demand.
• Build agentic features for Airbnb's autonomous Marketing Growth Engine, contributing primarily to campaign ideation and refinement.
• Lead projects across the full development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and production rollout.
• Work with Product, Design, Data, Marketing Operations, and other partners to turn marketing goals into platform capabilities.
• Partner with other engineering teams across Marketing Technology to build integrated systems.
• Help teams across Airbnb onboard to our services by advising them on use cases, guiding integrations, and improving our systems so they're easier to adopt.
• Take part in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to keep systems that serve millions of guests and hosts reliable.
• Use AI tools to work efficiently and run multiple workstreams in parallel, while still owning the quality, correctness, and long-term health of everything you ship.

Your Expertise:

• 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

Your

Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible.

The role

may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.

• While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.
• Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states.
• This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list.
• If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

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: [email protected].
• Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

How We'll Take Care of You:

• Our job titles may span more than one career level.
• The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands.
• The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$196,000 — $227,000 USD

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