Software Development Engineer-III

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.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and maintain highly available, low-latency, and scalable services and APIs, including system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling across multiple components or services

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical features, breaking down ambiguous problems, defining clear technical approaches, and driving solutions from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring

• Improve service reliability, observability, and operational excellence by defining and implementing robust logging, alerting, automated testing, and deployment pipelines, and by participating in on-call and incident response as needed

• Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and cross-functional engineering teams to make data-informed technical decisions, align on trade-offs, and ensure solutions are reusable and fungible across multiple domains and platforms

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, and apply familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and AI/ML concepts to enhance real-world products and engineering efficiency

• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, security, performance optimization, and continuous improvement, while mentoring other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
   

Experience and Qualifications: 
 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience

• Professional experience in software development, including owning and operating production services or applications within a multi-service or domain environment

• Proven expertise in at least one modern programming language, along with strong skills in system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling for distributed or service-oriented architectures

• Experience building, deploying, and supporting services in a cloud-based environment, including use of CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and monitoring/alerting tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced experience designing and evolving service architectures at scale, including performance tuning, capacity planning, and optimizing data models and APIs for high traffic and low latency

• Track record of technical leadership within a team or domain, such as driving architectural decisions, leading complex refactors or migrations, and establishing or improving engineering standards and practices

• Strong background in observability and operational excellence, including deep experience with metrics, tracing, logging, incident management, and automated resilience and recovery mechanisms

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows, with experience safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions in production services to improve user experiences, operational efficiency, or decision making

• Experience applying AI/ML concepts such as recommendation, ranking, or anomaly detection to product or platform capabilities, including collaborating with data science or ML engineering teams on model integration and lifecycle

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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