The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Define and drive technical vision and strategy for the Content Platform org,: ensuring architectural decisions scale across teams and align with broader company technology direction.
Identify and resolve the highest-leverage, most ambiguous technical problems: that span multiple teams or systems, often before they become visible to others.
Lead architecture and design reviews across the org, setting technical: standards and driving consistency in engineering practices.
Mentor and grow Staff and senior engineers, and act as a technical multiplier: by scaling your judgment and expertise across the broader organization.
Partner directly with engineering leadership, product, design, and: marketing/business stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities and influence roadmap decisions at the org level.
Represent Marketing Technology in company-wide technical forums, driving: adoption of best practices and shaping technical direction beyond your immediate team.
What they're looking for
- At Senior Staff level, our engineers are expected to operate with: organization-wide scope and impact, setting technical direction that shapes how multiple teams build and scale, while remaining deeply hands-on when it matters most.
- + years of hands-on software engineering experience, including a 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
