Principal Software Development Engineer - Observability
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Overview
Job Description
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.
Principal Software Engineer, Observability
Introduction to the Team:
As a Principal Engineer, you will be part of an agile development team with deepexpertisein cloud, distributed systems, and observability. You will play a pivotal role in craftingthe strategictechnical goals for our group. The main effort will involve leading the architecture, design, and implementation of a centralized, scalable, and cost-effective observability platform used by all engineering teams across Expedia.
You will provide technical leadership for a dynamic engineering organization and work alongside talented product managers and other technical leaders to deliver best-in-class capabilities to our developer community.
In this role, you will:
Architect and Build Core Telemetry Pipelines: Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable and resilient telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces. Evolve our platform to handle a 10x increase in data volume whilemaintainingperformance and cost-effectiveness
DriveOpenTelemetryAdoption: Spearhead the strategy, rollout, and support for theOpenTelemetrycollector across thousands of services. Develop best practices and automated configurations to ensure seamless and consistent data collection
Implement Platform Governance and Optimization: Design and build capabilities for data governance, cost allocation, and resource management within the observability platform. Define and implement SLOs for the platform itself and create tools to help teams manage their observability costs
Elevate the Practice of Observability: Act as a thought leader, driving the adoption of observability best practices across the engineering organization. Improve the developer experience by unifying tooling (e.g., Grafana, Datadog, Splunk),documentation, and service lifecycle management within our internal developer portal
Automate Infrastructure Lifecycle: Author andmaintainproduction-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and/orCrossplane.Eliminatemanual toil by automating cluster provisioning, dependency upgrades, and incident remediation workflows
Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier. Mentor senior engineers on the team, lead architecture review sessions, and author RFCs to build consensus on significant technical decisions. Your influence will extend beyond the team to application developers and SREs
Production Debugging: Serve as the final escalation point for complex, cross-cutting production incidents related to the observability platform, from telemetry agent bugs to data correlation failures in our distributed systems
Collaborate and Innovate: Explore andutilizea wide variety of technologies and tools, such as (but not limited to) Go, Java, Python, AWS, Kubernetes,OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Splunk,Clickhouse
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree in Computer Scienceor a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on building andoperatinglarge-scale distributed systems, infrastructure automation, or configuration management
Deepexpertisein observability principles and the "three pillars": logs, metrics, and traces
Strong hands-onproficiencywith observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, andOpenTelemetry
Proficientin one or more of: Go, Java, Python
Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Docker, microservices) and major cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience designing, building, andoperatinghighly available, scalable, and resilient platforms
Excellent hands-on coder who understands and appreciates bigger-picture architectural and business concerns
Clear communicator with the ability to concisely explain complex technical details to a wide variety of audiences in both verbal and written form
A creative problem solver who uses data and insights to support recommendations and influence decisions
Experience mentoring other senior engineers andestablishingstandards for operational excellence and code quality at a multi-project level
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.
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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.
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