Job Description

Principal Engineer, Search & Discovery

Expedia is the global leader in travel. We cover the entire breadth of travel from the practical matters of booking flights, cars, hotels, packages, local activities, or vacation rentals to realizing dreams and bucket lists. We team up with our partners to provide outstanding offers to our customers. Some of our partners are huge brands, and some are individuals with a studio apartment to rent. Our customers are diverse, and we seek to deliver value and a phenomenal experience. Our technical challenges are endlessly sophisticated and yet meaningful and exciting.

At the center of our travel marketplace is the Search & Discovery organization. This team is currently building Search, Recommendations, and intent collection systems to power our iconic brands like Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo, serving hundreds of millions of requests every day. The systems we create are essential for our online marketplaces with high availability and performance requirements and drive substantial commercial value.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer who combines superb technical skills to craft innovative solutions with a passion for influencing and coaching other senior individual contributors. This person must be comfortable translating vague problems into pragmatic solutions that open up the boundaries of technical possibilities and inspire others to follow. The role needs to be based in Seattle, Austin, or Chicago.

The person for this role is passionate about distributed systems, including caching, streaming, and indexing technologies on the cloud; has built ML-based systems; is always looking to maintain higher standards for themselves as well as everyone in the team, and enjoys teaching others and scales themselves by bringing others along.

Above all, this role will have the unique opportunity to shape the future of travel search.

What you will do:

* Architect and build next-generation travel search systems

* Develop various sub-systems that set and raise the bar on quality, operability, and scalability

* Curate, maintain and narrate end to end architecture

* Set and maintain a bar on engineering and operational excellence through guardrails, metrics, and practices

* Partner end-to-end with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Designers, and Researchers to develop the architectural vision and roadmap for the organization

* Innovate and scale ML workloads

* Liaison with peer teams within and outside Search & Discovery to define technical interfaces for system dependencies

* NOTE: As part of the interview process, to help us understand you better, you will be asked to present to an interview panel on a problem we give you.

Who you are:

* Built and operated cloud-based, highly available, and scalable online serving or streaming, or ML-based systems utilizing large, diverse data sets in production for 7-10 years

* Proficient in programming languages like Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, etc

* Experienced in designing API for internal and external consumers, architecting, and operating scalable and elastic distributed systems

* Coached, influenced, and inspired multiple teams to tackle technical problems

* Championed code quality, automated testing, design reviews, and other engineering practices

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience

About Expedia Group
Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Vrbo, Egencia, trivago, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Expedia Group Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert, CarRentals.com, and Expedia Cruises.

Expedia 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, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.