Senior Software Development Engineer, Pricing

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 global hybrid work setup (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.

Senior Software Development Engineer, Pricing

Introduction to team

We are the DST (Distribution & Supply Tech) Pricing team responsible for the Lodging, Pricing and Availability service which powers millions of quotes per second. As an empowered engineering team, we are dedicated to building a robust and mission-critical delivery platform. Driving the future of DST Pricing across all Expedia Group brands, we leverage cutting-edge technologies such as Terraform and CloudFormation, built on AWS, to deliver innovative solutions at scale.

We design and optimize a robust platform that meets our engineering needs while enabling seamless deployment across multiple availability zones and regions. Currently, we manage thousands of instances and perform numerous daily deployments without impacting customers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you take the lead in proposing, prototyping, designing, and implementing core components of the Pricing platform in collaboration with teams across the globe. Senior team members provide the thought leadership and technical expertise required to tackle large and complex challenges. By this stage in your career, you will have built and supported critical components of products and platforms at scale.

In this role, you will:

• Develop scalable, reliable and highly-performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, observability, resiliency)
• Refine and build end-to-end architecture for development, deployment, testing, monitoring and support on the AWS platform
• Monitor platform performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and reliability
• Participate in resolution of production issues and lead efforts toward solutions
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform
• Contribute to vigilantly rewriting, refactoring, and perfecting code
• Develop and implement automation tools to streamline platform operations
• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure and optimize resource utilization
• Ensure security best practices are followed in all aspects of the platform
• Develop and maintain documentation for platform configurations, processes, and procedures
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve our platform
• Use technologies such as Terraform, TeamCity, AWS, EC2, S3, Route 53, VPC, Lambda, Docker, Chef, Packer, Datadog, Consul, Scala, Kotlin

 

Experience and qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience leading technical designs, mentoring developers, and helping to drive engineering maturity
• Problem solver and an excellent engineer with deep understanding of DevOps, Cloud computing, and CI/CD
• Passionate about quality of work, you are persistent and principled
• A firm believer in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Chef, etc.
• Programming experience in (one or more) languages: Scala, Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, etc.
• Experienced in solving distributed computing problems, you have worked with/on synchronous and asynchronous services in a microservices / distributed architecture platform
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

 

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting 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.

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