Job Details
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.
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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 flexible work model (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 team
The Runtime Compute Platform (RCP) team are the platform engineers for Expedia Group: we build and run the company’s fully managed, centrally operated container runtime and service mesh on Kubernetes (EKS), providing a common, secure, and compliant runtime for services across all EG brands and environments.
We provision, secure, and operate Kubernetes clusters and workloads across all supported compute zones (AWS and existing data centers), covering deployment, connectivity, observability, and lifecycle management so product teams don’t have to own infrastructure complexity themselves.
As stewards of Expedia’s runtime ecosystem, our mission is to empower engineering teams to remove friction, improve reliability and performance, optimize cost, and deliver a first-class developer experience that accelerates how quickly ideas become customer-facing travel experiences at global scale.
In This Role, You Will
Design and build a kubernetes container platform for all environments in multi-cloud
implement Orchestration tools/systems to scale and automate operations tasks
Configuring and enhance a service mesh solution with ingress controller such as Istio, linkerd, etc
Manage multi-cloud or on-premise resources using infrastructure as Code (IaC) with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK to ensure declarative,
Maintain core cloud platform components such as Karpenter, Crossplane, and ArgoCD.
Observability, system and service performance analysis and tuning
Automation of application deployments, detect and repair problems in deployments by improving CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and internal developer tooling such as Backstage to streamline service lifecycle management.
Support DevOps operations and debugging production and pre-production environments
Ability to explore/use a wide variety of technologies and tools
Take ownership of high stress scenarios by remaining calm, employing critical thinking and data driven decision-making practices
Conduct on-call duties and be a part of the rotation
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of experience (or 3+ with a Master’s degree) building and operating cloud-native production systems at scale.
Hands-on experience with microservices or service-oriented architectures, including:
Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS or equivalent)
Service mesh and traffic management (Istio)
Cloud platform tools (Karpenter, Crossplane)
Core networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing)
Practical experience with at least one major public cloud platform (AWS preferred), including multi-AZ deployments, IAM, secrets management, and security best practices.
Experience working with modern engineering tools and ecosystems such as Java, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo, and HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Consul, Vault, Nomad).
Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of production services or platforms, including design, deployment, monitoring, on-call participation, incident response, and performance optimization.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience operating large-scale distributed systems, including leading incident response, conducting root cause analysis (RCA), and driving reliability improvements.
Track record of improving system reliability, latency, cost efficiency (FinOps), and developer productivity through automation and platform improvements.
Familiarity with AI-driven tools and workflows and experience integrating AI/ML-enabled capabilities into engineering systems.
Experience providing technical leadership on complex platform or infrastructure initiatives, influencing architecture and engineering best practices.
Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, review critical changes, and contribute to shared engineering standards and documentation
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.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
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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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
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