Senior Staff 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 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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 channels, such as Email, Push, SMS, and external Ads Platforms (e.g., Google, Facebook, etc). We deliver substantial business impact by enabling numerous stakeholders across the company, including Marketing (Brand and Performance), Guest/Host, Policy, and more.

This role specifically is to be a technical leader on the Communications platform team under Marketing technology. The Communications platform team is responsible for building mission-critical applications that allow marketers and product managers across Airbnb to send millions of notifications every day to hundreds of millions of Airbnb users. The team owns a number of self-serve tools for users of the platform to orchestrate, segment and deliver notifications to the global Airbnb customer base.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Marketing Technology team at Airbnb, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining a state-of-the-art platform to enable effective marketing campaigns and engagement with our customers. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Data/Analytics Engineer, Data Scientists, and Software Engineers to achieve the ambitious goals of the Marketing organization.

A Typical Day:

• Work with design and product partners to understand user journeys and requirements and rapidly prototype / explore potential solutions to Host problems.
• Work closely with other Senior leaders to define and drive northstar architectures / frameworks and long-term technical strategy that can be leveraged across the broader Marketing Technology organization.
• Establish best practices for engineering and help build an awesome tech culture in MarTech.
• Implement significant portions of the system and help others in the implementation.
• Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes.
• Perform design and code reviews and up-level other engineers at Airbnb.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
• Experience building, leading, and architecting full-stack products and systems at enterprise-scale with broad impact.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, ability to set technical direction and strategy and work cross functionally with Product, Design and Data Science teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners. Ability to influence non-technical partners such as design, product managers, and the business to develop a unified approach to overall hosting architecture and product/design capabilities.
• Strong prototyping / engineering spiking skills
• Extensive experience with Java, Python and or other programming languages. Expertise with frameworks such as GraphQL, React, Preact, Angular, Next, Vue or Meteor.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Your Location:

Remote- USA

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.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

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$244,000—$304,000 USD