Software Development Engineer III

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. Introduction to the Team: Expedia Platform 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.   Our team in EG is responsible for building a core platform that includes life cycle management of account, access and clusters; standardize governance by configuring network, security, observability, data and AI through core platform to make the infrastructure available for several hundred production services in EG. The position focuses on achieving efficiency and maintaining compliance posture across different cloud infrastructure domains through automation and AI adoption. In this role, you will: Design, build, and evolve highly available, performant, and secure services and APIs, including low-level design, API design, and data modeling to support complex business capabilities across multiple domains. Own end-to-end implementation for medium-to-large features and services, from technical design and coding through testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational support in a modern CI/CD and cloud environment. Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and peer engineering teams to break down ambiguous problems, define technical approaches, and deliver solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and observable. Improve code quality, reliability, and engineering efficiency by driving best practices in coding standards, automated testing, code reviews, and documentation across the team. Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products. Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, using logs, metrics, and tracing to identify root causes and implement resilient fixes that enhance the stability of services spanning multiple components.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience. 5+ years of relevant professional experience. Professional software development experience building and operating production services or applications, including working proficiency in at least one modern programming language and related frameworks. Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end delivery for services or features, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operational support for a service or set of services. Proven experience with system design (including low-level design), API design, and data modeling to build scalable, secure, and maintainable systems in a service-oriented or microservices environment.

Experience designing and evolving distributed, cloud-based systems at scale, including performance optimization, resiliency patterns, and effective use of observability to operate always-on services. Track record of leading the technical design for complex features or services, influencing architectural direction within a team