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
Set technical direction for the agentic Growth Engine: making architecture decisions on the systems that generate creatives, optimize bids and budgets, and manage audiences across Google, Meta, and other paid channels.
Write and review code hands-on, establishing engineering standards for: quality, availability, and system health across the platform.
Partner directly with Marketing, Product, and Design to translate growth: objectives into platform capabilities, and to define the human-in-the-loop controls that keep autonomous campaigns safe and on-brand.
Advance the AI-assisted → agentic → autonomous roadmap, identifying where to: introduce automation next and de-risking it through experimentation and staged rollout.
Mentor engineers and act as a force multiplier: leveling up the team through design reviews, technical guidance, and a collaborative, inclusive culture.
Collaborate with ML/AI and data platform teams on the models and signals that: feed campaign optimization, and integrate deeply with the Airbnb product to understand the customer journey.
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers.
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
