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 …