Expedia

Principal Software Development Engineer - Cloud Platform

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2 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Own the architectural evolution toward cell-based architecture and isolated failure domains.
  • Define the Kubernetes strategy, including multi-cluster management, service mesh, automated scaling, and Golden Path developer experiences.
  • Set organization-wide standards for SRE, causal observability, automated incident response, and SLO/SLI management.
  • Lead the technical strategy and tooling for FinOps, including cost-per-service visibility and infrastructure cost optimization.
  • Build agent-friendly developer infrastructure, including standardized Dev Containers and ephemeral environments.
  • Guide multiple teams toward coherent long-term technical direction and make high-impact architectural decisions.
  • Design, prototype, build, deploy, and operate reliable cloud-native platform services at scale.

Requirements

  • Extensive professional experience designing, building, and operating large-scale cloud-native distributed systems and platform services on Kubernetes.
  • Proven ownership of critical services or multi-service platforms, including low-level design, API design, data modeling, deployment, and operational health.
  • Deep expertise with at least one major public cloud provider and core platform technologies covering compute, networking, storage, service discovery, security, observability, and CI/CD.
  • Demonstrated ability to make high-impact architectural decisions, navigate complex trade-offs, and guide multiple teams.
  • Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world cloud or platform products.
  • Deep knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and distributed tracing.
  • Expert-level experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Pulumi and CI/CD at scale.
  • Proficiency in Go, Rust, or similar languages used in modern platform engineering.
  • Track record of defining multi-year technical strategies and driving adoption of shared cloud or developer platforms across many teams.
  • Experience designing and operating highly available, globally distributed systems, including capacity planning, performance optimization, and failure handling.
  • Experience safely integrating AI/ML-enabled solutions such as intelligent routing, predictive scaling, or automated remediation into platform services.
  • Advanced experience applying AI/ML to cloud and platform problems and partnering with data/ML teams to productionize these capabilities.
  • Experience with cloud architecture, failure domains, latency, unit economics, global-scale reliability, and hands-on production-grade infrastructure development.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness reimbursement, and travel reimbursement.
  • Travel discounts and International Airlines Travel Agent Network membership.
  • The posting includes San Jose location-specific logistics and states that pay varies based on location, budget, knowledge, skills, and experience.
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