Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

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. Everyday 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. 

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for seasoned senior software engineers across multiple pillars of our organization to build this best-in-class platform. Areas of impact may include: 

• Leading efforts to build a scalable marketing platform that enables delivering personalized content to Airbnb users on-site (eg. Landing Pages) and off-site such as email and push notification. 
• Designing the systems, implementing the solutions, and operating the platform with comprehensive testing and monitoring.
• Working with Performance Marketing to drive growth for Airbnb from Google Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Affiliates Marketing (Metasearch, Influencer), measuring the performance for Brand Marketing on Facebook, providing analytic reports for Email performance, etc. 

A Typical Day: 

• Develop custom solutions to integrate with external Ads Platforms (e.g., Google, Facebook, Trivago, ImpactRadius, etc) via API
• Design and implement privacy centric marketing event tracking solutions to support business operations
• Automate production pipelines and integrate with upstream/downstream data sources E2E
• Build backend services for various internal tools (e.g., Analytics Hub, Dimension Manager, Ads Connect, etc)
• Build scalable platform for offsite and in-product content configuration, hydration and rendering.
• Work with cross functional partners including product managers, designers and marketing managers to design and deliver a scalable content platform

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of industry experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Working experience in distributed systems (Java)
• Working experience in Big Data (Hive/Presto/Spark), Python, and SQL
• Design experience in scalable API and reliable production systems
• Experience building new scalable, reliable company-wide platforms leveraging existing core functionalities.

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. 

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.