Software Development Engineer III (Agentic AI)

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 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.

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.

Introduction to Team:

Our Technology Team partners with teams across Expedia Group 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.

The Inspire and Plan team which sits within our Product & Technology division, owns our homepage, landing, navigation, app growth, and trip‑planning experiences, showcasing Expedia Group’s travel offerings. Through brand‑differentiated, personalized, and contextual journeys we help travelers plan their perfect trip with confidence while maximizing marketing efficiencies and traffic acquisition performance.

In this role, you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, performant services and applications leveraging agentic AI capabilities to solve complex traveler and partner problems.
• Develop clean, testable, and maintainable code across the stack, including robust system design (low-level design), API design, and data modeling aligned with Expedia Group engineering standards.
• Integrate AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows into production services, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes for customers and internal users.
• Collaborate with product, applied science, and platform teams to translate business and AI/ML requirements into scalable technical solutions, contributing to technical design reviews and architecture discussions.
• Instrument services with monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure reliability, observability, and operational excellence, participating in on-call or incident response as needed.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, code reviews, and knowledge sharing to enable fungibility across multiple domains and services within the broader platform.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Professional software development experience (typically 5+ years) building and operating production services or applications.
• Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful or gRPC APIs, low-level system designs, and data models for scalable, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (such as Java, Kotlin, C#, Python, or similar) and in core software engineering practices including testing, code review, and CI/CD.
• Experience integrating or working with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows in production contexts, with an understanding of how to apply AI/ML concepts to real world products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and evolving service and data architectures that operate at scale, including consideration for performance, resiliency, and cost efficiency in cloud environments.
• Demonstrated track record driving end‑to‑end technical solutions for complex projects, from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement.
• Hands-on experience safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions, such as agentic workflows, recommendation systems, or generative AI features, including monitoring model behavior and performance.
• Experience with observability tooling, automated testing strategies, and operational best practices that improve reliability and reduce mean time to recovery across multiple services or domains.
• Strong background applying data-driven decision making to evaluate alternatives, optimize system behavior, and refine AI‑enabled product experiences, with additional depth in agentic AI patterns, orchestration frameworks, or LLM-based systems.

The total cash range for this position in San Jose is $157,500.00 to $220,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $252,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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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