Senior Software Development Engineer, Site Reliability

$173,000 - $277,000/Yr

Expedia Group - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Austin, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Development Engineer (SRE) to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our services and systems. You will work closely with development and operations teams to design, build, and maintain resilient systems that support our critical business functions. Joining the SRE team at Expedia Group offers an unparalleled opportunity to tackle interesting and complex challenges in a dynamic and innovative environment. Our team thrives on collaboration and creativity, fostering a fun and supportive culture that encourages everyone to contribute and grow. With our focus on reliability and resilience, you'll have the chance to make a tangible impact, ensuring seamless travel experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to learn and interact with a diverse array of languages and technologies, broadening your skill set and enhancing your career development.

Responsibilities

• Extends outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.
• Partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how our technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.
• Conducts successfully day-to-day work and solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area.
• Shares domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
• Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties.
• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.
• Identifies areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions.
• Advocates for operational excellence (such establishing SLOs, programming for resiliency and scalability).
• Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues.
• Takes a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made.
• Reports on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensures documentation is complete.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or Masters in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ year experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related/relevant experience in software engineering.
• Worked in decentralized teams and projects.
• Formally mentored at least 3 individuals.
• Drove technical design end-to-end of at least 3 projects.
• Has strength in multiple technologies or languages.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, NewRelic, Splunk).
• Understands highly complex systems and design moderately complex systems.
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of networking, infrastructure and security best practices.
• Prior experience In DevOps/SRE or related roles.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness & travel reimbursement
• Travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership