Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Technology

United States
Role overview Application

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:

Marketing Technology’s mission is to provide a state of the art platform and measurement capabilities to enable our product and marketing teams to effectively deliver highly personalized and relevant marketing campaigns to the Airbnb community via landing pages on airbnb.com and various communication channels like Email, SMS and Push notifications.

The Orchestration and Segmentation Platform team’s mission is to provide state-of-the-art orchestration and segmentation platforms to enable marketing and product teams  to connect with our guest and host community with personalized messaging based on their context, lifecycle, user traits, interests and intent.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a key contributor to Airbnb's Orchestration and Segmentation Team, you will leverage the Segmentation Platform to revolutionize how we connect with our community, ensuring personalized and meaningful interactions across various user journeys, both within and beyond the MarTech sphere. Success in this pivotal role means architecting and enhancing segmentation strategies that lead to significant uplifts in user engagement metrics, increased conversion rates, and the seamless integration of personalized content across multiple channels and departments. Your efforts will drive forward projects that prioritize strategic impact and user satisfaction, setting new standards for data-driven, user-centric communication within Airbnb.

A Typical Day: 

  • Build large scale distributed systems to deliver highly personalized and relevant content and notifications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Design and Engineers to deliver high-quality products.
  • Work closely with other teams within Airbnb to understand their segmentation needs.
  • Participate in team wide SCRUM meetings to track progress.
  • Participate in resolving technical debt, code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical documentation.
  • Participate in various employee resource group events and social events at Airbnb.

Your Expertise:

  • 5+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 2+ years with a PhD
  • Proficiency in Java (and/or Kotlin)
  • Experience with working on large data sets and distributed computing technologies such as Apache Hive, Apache Spark, and Apache Airflow. Proficiency in using these platforms for developing scalable data processing and workflow orchestration solutions is essential.
  • Expertise in database technologies, particularly with distributed SQL databases.
  • Experience with setting up, managing, and optimizing these databases for high-performance applications is critical.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
  • Strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, reliability and system quality.

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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
$185,000$223,000 USD