Expedia Group · 3 months ago
Principal Software Development Engineer — Platform & Infrastructure
USA - California - San Jose
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$249K/yr - $348K/yr
10+ years expExpedia Group is a company that powers global travel and designs innovative technology solutions. They are seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to lead the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, focusing on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
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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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