Senior Staff Software Engineer

Airbnb

Posted 1mo ago

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Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org
Identify and resolve the highest-leverage, most ambiguous technical problems
Lead architecture and design reviews across the org
Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers
Partner directly with engineering leadership, product, design, and marketing/business stakeholders
Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums

15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
track record of technical leadership at organizational scale
Bachelor's and/or Master's/PhD degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Deep expertise in backend systems and large-scale, service-oriented and distributed architectures
Proven experience architecting and scaling agentic or AI-driven systems in production
Experience with Java
Experience with Kotlin
Experience with LangGraph
Experience with GraphQL
Experience with relational databases
Experience with NoSQL databases
Experience with caching solutions like Redis
Experience with microservice architecture
Demonstrated ability to set technical vision and drive execution across multiple teams and stakeholders
track record of influencing engineering culture and standards beyond a single team
Passionate about efficiency, availability, and system quality at scale

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