Expedia Group · 1 week ago
Distinguished Software Development Engineer
Washington - Seattle Campus
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$296K/yr - $414K/yr
14+ years expExpedia Group is a leader in global travel technology, designing innovative solutions to enhance travel experiences. The Distinguished Engineer will lead the technical strategy for the Multi-Product Shopping team, ensuring personalized and relevant results through data and machine learning while mentoring other engineers.
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Responsibilities
Define and lead the multi-year technical strategy for our Multi-Product Shopping team aligning to our traveler, partner, and business goals
Partner across multiple business and technical teams to define programs with large value for our Travelers and company and help distill them into 1–5-year plans
Own our data and machine learning strategy, ensuring that systems return relevant and personalized results and make automated decisions with high accuracy, creating a more delightful travel shopping experience
Drive clarity on trade-offs (e.g., caching vs. freshness, consistency vs. availability, heuristic vs. model-based decisions), making principled choices rooted in SLOs and measurable business impact
Lead by example thru cross-org architecture reviews, reference implementations, and design docs/RFCs that unblock multiple teams; provide deep mentorship to Principal and Senior Engineers
Champion observability and quality (SLOs, P95/P99 latency, canary and staged rollouts, automated regression detection, etc.) bringing a culture of excellence to our technology team
Qualification
Required
Software engineer with 14+ years' experience in designing and building large-scale, low-latency systems (tens of thousands of RPS, sub-second P95 goals)
You've been executing at the Principal Engineer level for 5+ years, leading innovative initiatives across a variety of business needs including information retrieval expertise
Strong ML engineering experience: comfortable collaborating with data scientists on problem framing and model-operational trade-offs
Influence at scale: history of cross-team technical leadership, setting engineering standards, mentoring senior and principal engineers, and driving complex programs to measurable outcomes
Excellent communicator: ability to tell a clear story on complex business and technical concepts, explain trade-offs to diverse audiences, and drive alignment across engineering, product, data science, and design
An innovator, with proven experience in developing new ideas in favor of your customers, and the ability to drive them to completion through a mix of personal effort and influencing other leaders above you or foreign to your space
Benefits
Medical/dental/vision
Paid time off
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness & travel reimbursement
Travel discounts
International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership
Company
Expedia Group
At Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE), we believe travel is a force for good – it opens minds, builds connections, and bridges divides.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$4.25BKey Investors
TCV
2025-02-21Post Ipo Debt· $985M
2020-04-23Post Ipo Equity· $1.2B
2020-04-23Post Ipo Debt· $2B
Leadership Team
Ariane Gorin
Chief Executive Officer
Ramana Thumu
Chief Technology Officer
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