{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"b55bd2a99c6cb24f596fdde9","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b55bd2a99c6cb24f596fdde9","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b55bd2a99c6cb24f596fdde9","title":"Principal Software Development Engineer — Platform & Infrastructure","description":"At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.\n\nHere, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.\n\nPrincipal Software Development Engineer — Platform & Infrastructure\n\nIntroduction to Team:\n\nExpedia 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWhat you will do:\n\nDefine the technical strategy, roadmap and standards for cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (container runtime, orchestration, networking, CI/CD, observability, security, IaC)\n\nLead migration and platform adoption efforts (containerization, Kubernetes/EKS, runtime platform) and drive roadmap execution end-to-end\n\nBe an active code and IaC contributor (Terraform/CloudFormation/Helm, platform services, automation) and perform design/code reviews\n\nDesign scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure patterns for microservices, data stores, caching, and messaging\n\nBuild and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, testing strategies, and safe deployment practices\n\nDrive SRE and observability practices: define SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, tracing, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-mortems\n\nLead capacity planning, performance tuning, and traffic engineering for high-scale workloads\n\nOwn and evangelize AWS cost optimization practices (rightsizing, reserved/spot strategies, architecture changes, cost monitoring and show back)\n\nDefine and enforce platform standards, security controls, environment tagging, and operational excellence practices across teams\n\nMentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers; identify high-potential talent and raise engineering standards\n\nCollaborate closely with product, security, platform, and operations stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals and compliance requirements\n\nMinimum qualifications:\n\n10+ years professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on experience building and operating distributed cloud services\n\nStrong, demonstrable experience building and running platforms on AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling)\n\nDeep hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes at scale (EKS or comparable)\n\nPractical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Helm charts\n\nProven record of contributing production code and platform automation (languages such as Go, Python, Java, or similar)\n\nExperience designing for resilience, observability, security and operational automation\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD tooling and developer workflows (Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions\n\nStrong communication skills and experience mentoring engineers\n\nPreferred qualifications :\n\nPrior platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure leadership at scale\n\nExperience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)\n\nProven experience with AWS cost optimization strategies and tooling (Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, billing APIs)\n\nKnowledge of service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, VPC Lattice), API gateways, and advanced networking patterns\n\nExperience with security/compliance for cloud environments, secrets management, and policy-as-code\n\nExperience migrating monoliths to cloud-native architectures\n\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $369,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nThe total cash range for this position in San Jose is $249,000.00 to $348,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $398,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\n\nStarting 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.\n\nBenefits and perks\n\nExpedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life .\n\nAccommodation requests\n\nExpedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation .\n\nAbout Expedia Group\n\nExpedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.\n\nImportant notice\n\nEmployment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/ .\n\nEqual Opportunity\n\nExpedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. 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A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.\n\nWe 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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWhat you will do:\n\nDefine the technical strategy, roadmap and standards for cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (container runtime, orchestration, networking, CI/CD, observability, security, IaC)\n\nLead migration and platform adoption efforts (containerization, Kubernetes/EKS, runtime platform) and drive roadmap execution end-to-end\n\nBe an active code and IaC contributor (Terraform/CloudFormation/Helm, platform services, automation) and perform design/code reviews\n\nDesign scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure patterns for microservices, data stores, caching, and messaging\n\nBuild and improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, testing strategies, and safe deployment practices\n\nDrive SRE and observability practices: define SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, tracing, alerting, runbooks, incident response, and post-mortems\n\nLead capacity planning, performance tuning, and traffic engineering for high-scale workloads\n\nOwn and evangelize AWS cost optimization practices (rightsizing, reserved/spot strategies, architecture changes, cost monitoring and show back)\n\nDefine and enforce platform standards, security controls, environment tagging, and operational excellence practices across teams\n\nMentor and grow senior and mid-level engineers; identify high-potential talent and raise engineering standards\n\nCollaborate closely with product, security, platform, and operations stakeholders to align technical solutions with business goals and compliance requirements\n\nMinimum qualifications:\n\n10+ years professional software engineering experience with significant hands-on experience building and operating distributed cloud services\n\nStrong, demonstrable experience building and running platforms on AWS (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling)\n\nDeep hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes at scale (EKS or comparable)\n\nPractical experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and Helm charts\n\nProven record of contributing production code and platform automation (languages such as Go, Python, Java, or similar)\n\nExperience designing for resilience, observability, security and operational automation\n\nFamiliarity with CI/CD tooling and developer workflows (Spinnaker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions\n\nStrong communication skills and experience mentoring engineers\n\nPreferred qualifications :\n\nPrior platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure leadership at scale\n\nExperience with monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)\n\nProven experience with AWS cost optimization strategies and tooling (Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, billing APIs)\n\nKnowledge of service meshes (Istio, Linkerd, VPC Lattice), API gateways, and advanced networking patterns\n\nExperience with security/compliance for cloud environments, secrets management, and policy-as-code\n\nExperience migrating monoliths to cloud-native architectures\n\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $369,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nThe total cash range for this position in San Jose is $249,000.00 to $348,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $398,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\n\nStarting 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.\n\nBenefits and perks\n\nExpedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life .\n\nAccommodation requests\n\nExpedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation .\n\nAbout Expedia Group\n\nExpedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.\n\nImportant notice\n\nEmployment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/ .\n\nEqual Opportunity\n\nExpedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. 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