Principal Analyst - Security Operations

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. Here, 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. Principal Analyst – Security Operations Our Cyber Security organization works across Expedia Group to protect the travelers, partners, employees, and platforms that power global travel. We build and operate resilient, intelligence-driven security capabilities spanning security operations, threat detection and response, security engineering, identity, data, and cloud security—reducing cyber risk while enabling trusted, secure innovation at scale. The Security Operations team partners with technology, product, and platform teams to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from threats while continuously improving the automation, telemetry, and operating models that keep Expedia Group secure. As part of this team, a Principal Security Operations leader will help set the technical direction for modern, AI-enabled defense capabilities, turn complex signals into decisive action, and strengthen a proactive, measurable security posture across the enterprise. In this role you will: Lead complex security operations analyses to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated threats across Expedia Group’s environments, driving clear, measurable risk reduction. Design, optimize, and standardize security monitoring and incident response workflows, including runbooks, playbooks, and escalation paths, to improve speed, quality, and consistency of response. Partner with engineering, incident management, and product teams to translate security findings into actionable technical requirements and remediation plans, influencing roadmaps across multiple domains. Develop and maintain advanced analytics, detections, dashboards, and reporting that provide deep visibility into security posture, threat trends, and operational performance for senior stakeholders. Provide technical leadership and mentorship across global security operations, shaping best practices for log management, alert tuning, investigation techniques, and use of SOAR/SIEM and related tooling. Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve detection, triage, and response outcomes, building familiarity with AI‑driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world security operations scenarios.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in security operations. Extensive experience in security operations, including hands‑on incident detection, investigation, and response across large‑scale or complex environments. Proven ownership of security operations across multiple services or domains, including responsibility for end‑to‑end monitoring, alerting, and incident handling processes. Strong technical expertise in security tooling and infrastructure such as SIEM, EDR, log management, and security analytics platforms, and in interpreting complex telemetry for threat detection. Familiarity with AI‑driven systems, tools, or workflows in a security context, and the ability to work effectively with data, detections, and automation to improve operational outcomes.

Advanced experience operating global, large‑scale security operations, including designing