Senior Software Development Engineer

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.

Introduction to the Team

Expedia Product & Technology builds 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 for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.   

As a Software Engineer working on an industry-leading Data Platform, you will collaborate with other experienced software engineers to drive improvements to our technology, design and develop new services and software solutions, and build and track metrics to ensure high-quality results. You will have the chance to work with business partners and leaders to influence and drive product vision and lead the design of our systems.

We love contributing our work to open-source communities and have successfully done so with tools like Circus Train, Waggle Dance and Beekeeper. Recently, we added Hive support to Apache Iceberg.

We guarantee you’ll learn a lot and won't be bored!

What you will do:

• Write clear, efficient, well-tested code and evolve development standards and design patterns.
• Be part of an agile team that is continuously learning and improving.
• Work independently, build rapport with other engineering teams and take architectural ownership of critical systems.
• Develop scalable and highly performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency).
• Help us shape the future of Data Lakes.
• Communicate and document solutions and design decisions.

Who you are:

• You have core and server-side Java programming (Spring, concurrency, streams, lambdas) and knowledge of Linux/Python (bash scripting, grep, sed, awk).
• You have good knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hadoop, Hive) and experience with Kafka (Spark Streaming, Flink).
• You have strong experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, EMR, S3, Kubernetes, Docker) and experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm).
• You have experience with microservice architecture and design, with an eye towards scalability tuning, algorithms and computational complexity.
• You have experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, code reviews, pair programming).
• You’re passionate about open source!

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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