Senior Software Development Engineer - AI Foundations

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

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.

This Senior Software Developer Engineer position will be part of the DevEx AI Agents Marketplace team. This team is responsible for building a set of autonomous AI Agents to improve Developer Experience across EG. This is an open marketplace to enable platform use-cases and allow teams to use and build their own custom agents to solve broad development problems. This will be a high impact technical leadership role, defining tech strategy, while also being deeply hands on in building out the AI Agents experience.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a community of practice, bringing people together for shared learning and development.

• Partner with business stakeholders to build a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes.

• Serve as a guide to other engineers, sharing your domain and industry knowledge across cross-functional teams.

• Research, recommend, and implement frameworks, architectural patterns, and code design patterns.

• Advocate for operational excellence, including unit testing, establishing SLAs, and programming for resiliency and scalability.

• Apply systems thinking to analyze issues, making recommendations to improve processes and implement holistic solutions.

• Facilitate collaboration with diverse stakeholders to develop effective and innovative solutions to complex issues.

• Take ownership of the full software development lifecycle, from technical design to testing, deployment, and maintenance.

• Report on the status and progress of high-level projects to technology leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• 6+ years of professional software development experience with a Master's degree, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's degree.

• Proven experience driving the end-to-end technical design of multiple complex, multi-quarter projects.

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and/or technologies.

• Demonstrated ability to understand highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems.

• Experience collaborating with business partners to identify problems and deliver technical solutions that meet their needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience working with AI Agents

• Experience serving as a subject matter expert for a given technical domain.

• Contributions to the wider engineering community (e.g., blog posts, open-source contributions, tech talks).

• A deep understanding of modern testing, monitoring, and alerting tools and technologies.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, 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.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediggroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity

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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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.