Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Segmentation & Insights Platform team at Airbnb, you'll lead projects end-to-end and help shape how Airbnb reaches its guests and hosts.
Our team builds high-scale backend systems that segment guests, hosts, and other entities, handling 100k+ requests per second and powering marketing, in-app experiences, and many other use cases across Airbnb.
Responsibilities:
- Scale the core platform to stay highly available, low-latency, and observable.
- 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.
Requirements:
- 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
Benefits:
- The base pay range is $196,000-$227,000 USD
- Eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits