Priceline · 2 days ago
Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and Operations
New York, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$210K/yr - $260K/yrPriceline is a leading online travel company focused on providing affordable travel solutions. As the Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Infrastructure and Operations, you will set the strategy for reliable and scalable infrastructure, ensuring that product teams can deliver efficiently while maintaining high standards of security and performance.
CollaborationE-CommerceLeisureMobileTicketingTransportationTravel
Responsibilities
Define and evolve the target-state Infrastructure and Operations architecture aligned to Priceline’s long-term business and technology objectives, with a pragmatic phased roadmap and measurable interim milestones
Design and govern global, cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE, service mesh, data and messaging backbones, edge/CDN, identity/IAM, network architecture) that are resilient, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized—grounded in explicit trade-offs
Lead platform engineering strategy—establish paved roads/golden paths, an internal developer platform (IDP), reusable reference architectures, and self-service automation that shorten idea-to-production cycles
Institutionalize SRE fundamentals and advance Infrastructure as Code and GitOps
Embed security and privacy by design—partner with Security/Risk to implement Zero Trust, secrets and key management, vulnerability & patch orchestration, data protection, and regulatory controls (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA) across platforms and pipelines
Use business criticality classification to drive resiliency, capacity, and performance engineering requirements, with automated IaC policies for topology/redundancy, data protection, observability configuration, SLOs, change management requirements, and IAM policies
Evaluate emerging technologies, patterns, and vendors to shape strategic roadmaps—leading build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, and TCO/ROI assessments to de-risk decisions
Coach principal and staff engineers, uplevel engineering practices, and cultivate a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers
Deep experience across cloud infrastructure and operations—Kubernetes/container platforms, platform engineering/IDP, networks, storage, observability, incident management, DR/BCP, and modern change management
Hands-on engineering background with fluency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation (e.g., Python/Go), GitOps/CI/CD, service mesh, and production observability
Cloud-native experience—ideally GCP (e.g. GKE, Cloud Service Mesh, VPC, CloudSQL/AlloyDB/Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, GCE, GCS, Vertex AI, Looker) and Kafka
Security-first mindset with practical knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, and privacy/compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA)
FinOps-aware—able to model and optimize cost/reliability/latency trade-offs at scale
Bias for clarity and simplicity—reducing complexity and enabling teams to move faster and smarter
Analytical problem-framer who reduces ambiguity into clear, actionable components
Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust
Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential
Company
Priceline
Priceline is a travel-related deal search technology that enables travelers to find travel and lodging deals and discounts. It is a sub-organization of Booking Holdings.
Founded in 1997
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$77.34M1999-03-30IPO
1998-12-01Series B· $55.35M
1998-07-31Series A· $20M
Leadership Team
Brett Keller
CEO
Sejal Amin
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
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