Principal Software Development Engineer — Platform & Infrastructure

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse vibrant and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements we foster an open culture where everyone belongs differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins we all win.

We provide a full benefits package including exciting travel perks generous time-off parental leave a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices) and career development resources all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Principal Software Development Engineer — Platform & Infrastructure
 

Introduction to Team:   

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products services and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers partners and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure differentiated and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.   

We are hiring a hands-on Principal Software Development Engineer to lead the design implementation and operational excellence of our cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. This role emphasizes platform engineering: designing and delivering a scalable reliable secure observable and cost-efficient runtime platform (Kubernetes containers CI/CD IaC cloud services) used by multiple product teams. You will both set strategy and be embedded in the code and infrastructure to execute the roadmap end-to-end.

You will shape the foundational platform that powers customer-facing services across brands increasing developer velocity reducing operational risk and optimizing cloud spend. This role is ideal for a leader who can design complex systems implement solutions in production and lead broad cross-team adoption.
 

What you will do:

• Define the technical strategy roadmap and standards for cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (container runtime orchestration networking CI/CD observability security IaC)
• Lead migration and platform adoption efforts (containerization Kubernetes/EKS runtime platform) and drive roadmap execution end-to-end
• Be an active code and IaC contributor (Terraform/CloudFormation/Helm platform services automation) and perform design/code reviews
• Design scalable resilient and secure infrastructure patterns for microservices data stores caching and messaging
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines release automation testing strategies and safe deployment practices
• Drive SRE and observability practices: define SLIs/SLOs monitoring tracing alerting runbooks incident response and post-mortems
• Lead capacity planning performance tuning and traffic engineering for high-scale workloads
• Own and evangelize AWS cost optimization practices (rightsizing reserved/spot strategies architecture changes cost monitoring and show back)
• Define and enforce platform standards security controls environment tagging and operational excellence practices across teams
• Mentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers; identify high-potential talent and raise engineering standards
• Collaborate closely with product security platform and operations stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals and compliance requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• 10+ years professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on experience building and operating distributed cloud services
• Strong demonstrable experience building and running platforms on AWS (EKS ECS EC2 VPC IAM S3 RDS ELB/ALB Auto Scaling)
• Deep hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes at scale (EKS or comparable)
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform CloudFormation) and Helm charts
• Proven record of contributing production code and platform automation (languages such as Go Python Java or similar)
• Experience designing for resilience observability security and operational automation
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and developer workflows (Spinnaker Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions
• Strong communication skills and experience mentoring engineers
   

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior platform engineering SRE or infrastructure leadership at scale
• Experience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry Jaeger)
• Proven experience with AWS cost optimization strategies and tooling (Cost Explorer Trusted Advisor billing APIs)
• Knowledge of service meshes (Istio Linkerd VPC Lattice) API gateways and advanced networking patterns
• Experience with security/compliance for cloud environments secrets management and policy-as-code
• Experience migrating monoliths to cloud-native architectures

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors including location available budget and an individual’s knowledge skills and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families including medical/dental/vision paid time off and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement travel discounts and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability or other physical or mental health conditions please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes TIME Disability:IN and others.

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What We Do

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia® Hotels.com® Expedia® Partner Solutions Vrbo® trivago® Orbitz® Travelocity® Hotwire® Wotif® ebookers® CheapTickets® Expedia Group™ Media Solutions Expedia Local Expert® CarRentals.com™ and Expedia Cruises™.

Why Work With Us

As travelers and technologists we are passionate about making travel more seamless accessible and memorable. We embrace different perspectives celebrate new ideas and empower every Expedian to drive meaningful change. The experiences we create bridge divides and broaden horizons – helping create unforgettable memories through travel.

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