About the Role
The Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer III role is part of the cloud infrastructure team, which designs, builds, and operates foundational cloud platforms, tools, and services that power Expedia Group’s products at global scale, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and cost-efficient. This role enables engineering teams to deliver and run services effectively by designing, building, and operating reliable cloud platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable cloud platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver and run services effectively.
- Apply technical aptitude across infrastructure, automation, observability, security, and platform reliability to improve engineering outcomes.
- Configure, implement, and enhance service mesh capabilities, including ingress controller patterns and Istio-based solutions, to support secure service-to-service communication and workload connectivity.
- Drive observability, capacity planning, system and service performance analysis, and environment tuning, while debugging issues across production and pre-production environments.
- Advance continuous delivery practices by automating application and infrastructure deployments, integrating infrastructure as code into CI/CD pipelines, and detecting and remediating deployment issues.
- Take ownership of high-pressure operational scenarios by applying calm, data-driven decision making, advocating for operational excellence through resiliency, scalability, testing, and service-level practices, participating in on-call rotations, and exploring new technologies, including AI-driven tools and workflows, that improve engineering outcomes.
- Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, while applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products and workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
- 3+ years of infrastructure automation, configuration management or container orchestration
- Experience building, deploying, and operating cloud infrastructure or platform services, with ownership spanning multiple services or engineering teams.
- Proficiency with software engineering and cloud-platform practices, including automation, infrastructure as code, APIs, data modeling, observability, and reliability engineering.
- Demonstrated proficiency with at least one major public cloud provider, container orchestration concepts, networking, and security controls, including hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, or Java.
Skills
- Infrastructure automation
- Configuration management
- Container orchestration
- Cloud infrastructure
- Platform services
- Software engineering
- Cloud-platform practices
- Automation
- Infrastructure as code
- APIs
- Data modeling
- Observability
- Reliability engineering
- Public cloud provider
- Container orchestration concepts
- Networking
- Security controls
- Python
- Go
- Java
- Service Mesh
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- Ambient Mesh
- Terraform
- Systems engineering
- Proxy-based architectures
- Workload identity and authentication
- Service-to-service communication
- TCP/IP networking
- Crossplane
- Terragrunt
- cert-manager
- Kubernetes Load Balancer Controllers
- Kubernetes manifests
- Helm charts
- YAML-based configurations
Location
- Chicago
- Austin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of infrastructure automation, configuration management or container orchestration
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
Salary/Compensations
- Chicago: $136,000.00 - $190,500.00 (potential to $217,500.00)
- Austin: $146,000.00 - $204,500.00 (potential to $233,500.00)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness and travel reimbursement
- Travel discounts
- International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership
About the Company
- 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.
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.
