Expedia

We believe travel enriches our lives and connects us to each other. Our Expedia Flights team is dedicated to building experiences that help travelers like you go places and makes our world more connected. We are a global team with representation in the United States, Mexico, Australia and India. Our Flights Shopping Platform is one of the largest in the world serving over 150 million queries a day and powering some of the strongest brands in the industry like Orbitz, Expedia, Travelocity, Wotif, Hotwire and ebookers. Expedia disrupted the airline industry with its flight shopping and booking technology 20 years ago. We always want to “be the place travelers choose to explore and book flights for a trip” and are looking for talent to join us and build technology and experiences that power these. 

What makes Flights technology unique? 

• We are one of the few companies in the world that own a proprietary flight search engine (called Best Fare Search) which is used by millions of users on a daily basis. 

• We are moving one of the world’s biggest flights platform to AWS. 

• We handle several 100 thousand booking transactions every day and connect with all major airline partners you can think of. 

• We collect TeraBytes of Flights Data and are actively looking to use ML to show the right content to our customers. 

As a Principal Architect on Air Technology team, you will work closely with Expedia Architecture team and Air tech leaders and utilize your creativity and technical skills to architect platforms which shape the future of flight shopping and booking experience. Our teams have flexibility to make the technology choices that best provide value to our beloved travelers and partners. As a member of the team, you’ll be leading, deciding and evangelizing these choices. We are constantly evolving our platform and are currently focused on an Instant Search Product. We organize for feature velocity, so wherever appropriate, your teams will leverage AWS services like Lambda, Kinesis, ElastiCache, Aurora, DynamoDB and of course EC2, ECS and S3. To further help speed things up, you’ll look to build on top of open source systems and libraries like Redis, GRPC, Akka, Cassandra, and MongoDB. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Influence and define the vision for the future of our flights platform, primarily shopping 

• Provide strategic influence across brands, departments, projects, and products to implement cost-effective technology solutions that tackle complex business problems. 

• Engage in and facilitate conceptual design sessions, discussing proposed technology solutions, to insure they scale, are supportable, and meet business objectives. 

• Collaborate across Data Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams to provide technical guidance and architectural input into data product development. 

• Work with senior leadership to articulate opportunities, costs, and risks associated with decisions made around the platform architecture and implementation. 

• Prototype solutions and evaluate platforms, documenting and sharing key insights with technical and non-technical users. 

• Manage multiple concurrent, complex, and/or unique projects and initiatives from the architecture and platform perspective.  

• Provide planning support for a 1 - 2 year view on technology, platform and/or operational strategies for business unit(s) supported. 

• Provide technical coaching and mentorship across engineering teams, fostering an environment of innovation and inclusion on Cloud ecosystems. 

• Drive towards an architecture that optimizes flexibility, re-use, scalability, performance, availability and highly cost-effective. 

• Drive the evolution of standards & design patterns with industry-standard methodologies and new technology to enhance productivity, quality, and system performance. 

• Identify system, infrastructure, and project interdependencies and balance opposing demands to ensure the teams can deliver positive and timely project outcomes. 

Requirements: 

• BS in Computer Science or a related engineering field, MS preferred.   

• 10+ years of software/data engineering experience across multiple technologies, languages and frameworks. 

• Experience architecting and solving complex, large-scale systems and successfully delivering projects as an individual and team leader. 

• Ability to balance priorities from customers, suppliers and business owners with platform needs. 

• Ability to work independently. 

• Strong background in the cloud including Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform etc and experience with third-party cloud analytics, platform management tools and services.: 

• Effective coaching and leadership skills and an ability to successfully champion mature solutions. 

• Experience with predictive modeling. 

• Ability to look at solutions in creative and unconventional ways, recognize opportunities to innovate, and engage partners in a vision and strategy. 

• Strong understanding of metadata, schemas, lineage, data quality. 

• Ability to mentor other engineers and develop, evangelize technical maturity across the company. 

• Ability to explain technical details and challenges to a wide variety of public. 

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.