About the position
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 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 connect with our vibrant community. We aim to enable marketing and product teams to connect with our guest and host community with personalized messaging to deliver critical information and improve adoption of Airbnb’s offerings via various communication channels like Email, SMS and Push notifications. The Difference You Will Make: As a key contributor to Airbnb's Orchestration Platform Team, you will revolutionize how we connect with our guests and hosts communities, ensuring personalized and meaningful interactions across various user journeys, both within and beyond the Marketing domain. Success in this role means architecting and enhancing communication workflow orchestration strategies that lead to uplifts in user engagement metrics, increased conversion rates, and the seamless integration of personalized content across multiple channels. Your efforts will drive forward projects that prioritize strategic impact and user satisfaction, setting new standards for data-driven, user-centric communication within Airbnb.
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed systems to serve highly personalized notifications efficiently.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners, including Product, Design, and Engineering teams, to ensure the delivery of top-tier products.
- Work closely with other teams within Airbnb to understand their workflow orchestration needs.
- Drive team in resolving technical debt, code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical documentation.
- Participate in various employee resource group events and social events at Airbnb.
- Mentor junior and senior engineers on the team.
Requirements
- 9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 6+ years with a PhD
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions
- Proficiency in Java (and/or Kotlin)
- Familiarity with message queuing services such as Kafka and Amazon SQS, demonstrating an understanding of their role in building scalable, reliable systems.
- Expertise in database technologies, particularly with distributed SQL databases.
- Experience with setting up, managing, and optimizing these databases for high-performance applications is critical.
- Experience working with Temporal Cloud is a plus.
- Experience working on marketing technologies is a plus, offering a valuable perspective on integrating technical solutions with marketing strategies.
- Strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, reliability and system quality.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with Temporal Cloud is a plus.
- Experience working on marketing technologies is a plus.
Benefits
- Base pay range of $204,000—$255,000 USD
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity options
- Employee Travel Credits
- Comprehensive benefits package
