Staff Backend Engineer – Ads Platform

🕒 July 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $212k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ 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. • Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment. • Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders. • Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership. • Bonus - Hands-on experience with paid advertising platforms (Meta, Google, or similar) — you understand how the ecosystem works, not just the engineering surface.

🏖️ Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.