Senior Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer - Kubernetes

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.

Introduction to Team

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group 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.
This Senior Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer role is part of the cloud infrastructure team which sits within our technology division. The cloud infrastructure team designs builds and operates the foundational cloud platforms tools and services that power Expedia Group’s products at global scale ensuring they are secure reliable and cost-efficient. As a Senior Software Development Engineer you will lead the design and delivery of robust scalable cloud solutions that enable product teams to ship features faster and more safely while maintaining high standards of availability and performance.
In this role you will:

• Architect and evolve secure scalable platform capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments with a focus on connectivity automation and infrastructure reliability.

• Design implement and scale orchestration and infrastructure automation solutions using tools such as Terraform KubeFed and related Kubernetes ecosystem technologies.

• Configure implement and enhance service mesh capabilities including ingress controller patterns and Istio-based solutions to support secure service-to-service communication and workload connectivity.

• Drive observability capacity planning system and service performance analysis and environment tuning while debugging issues across production and pre-production environments.

• Advance continuous delivery practices by automating application and infrastructure deployments integrating infrastructure as code into CI/CD pipelines and detecting and remediating deployment issues.

• Take ownership of high-pressure operational scenarios by applying calm data-driven decision making advocating for operational excellence through resiliency scalability testing and service-level practices participating in on-call rotations and exploring new technologies including AI-driven tools and workflows that improve engineering outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years (Bachelor's) or 6+ years (Master's) of professional software engineering experience

• 3+ years of infrastructure automation configuration management or container orchestration

• Several years of experience designing building and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure and cloud-native services in production environments with ownership of multi-service or platform-level systems.

• Demonstrated proficiency with at least one major public cloud provider container orchestration concepts networking and security controls including hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation.

• Proven ability to design and support APIs system integrations and data models for platform services ensuring reliability scalability and maintainability across multiple teams or domains.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency using Terraform to provision automate and manage cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.

• Experience working with service mesh implementations in Kubernetes environments with familiarity in Istio and exposure to emerging patterns such as ambient mesh.

• Familiarity with systems engineering and networking fundamentals including proxy-based architectures workload authentication and core TCP/networking concepts in cloud infrastructure environments.

• Experience working with adjacent cloud infrastructure tooling and frameworks such as Crossplane Terragrunt CertManager Kubernetes load balancer controllers or similar components used to support secure platform deployments.

• Ability to read adapt and support code in languages such as Python Go or Java to help migrate legacy tooling and applications into newer Kubernetes-based infrastructure patterns.

• Prior experience developing & maintaining Kubernetes manifests and YAML configurations

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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