Principal Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure & Operations

Priceline.com LLC; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Priceline.com LLC is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect, focusing on Infrastructure and Operations. You will set strategies that enhance reliability, speed, and security across our platforms. This hybrid role involves 2 days in-office per week.

Key responsibilities include defining architecture, designing cloud-native platforms, and leading governance. Candidates should have 8+ years of experience and expertise in cloud technologies.

The salary range for this position is $175,000–$220,000 USD, and we value diversity and equal opportunity in hiring.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and operations.
• Hands-on background with Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, preferably GCP.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Infrastructure and Operations architecture.
• Design global, cloud-native platforms that are resilient and scalable.
• Lead architecture governance and manage technical debt.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Automation (Python/Go)

Zero Trust security

Effective communication

Tools

Terraform

GCP

Kafka

Job description

Principal Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and Operations

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office.

Job Overview

As a Principal Enterprise Architect for Infrastructure and Operations, you’ll set the strategy and standards that power reliability, speed, and safety across Priceline’s platforms, networks, and run‑time environments. This role raises the architectural bar for Priceline’s Infrastructure and Operations—building reliable, scalable, secure, and cost‑effective foundations so product teams can ship quickly without chaos. You’ll unify platform engineering, SRE, networking, and multi‑region cloud infrastructure into paved roads and guardrails that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, strengthen observability, reduce change‑failure rate and MTTR, enable safe, scalable AI adoption, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the target‑state Infrastructure and Operations architecture aligned to Priceline’s long‑term business and technology objectives, with a pragmatic phased roadmap and measurable interim milestones.
• Design and govern global, cloud‑native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE, service mesh, data and messaging backbones, edge/CDN, identity/IAM, network architecture) that are resilient, scalable, secure, and cost‑optimized—grounded in explicit trade‑offs.
• Lead platform engineering strategy—establish paved roads/golden paths, an internal developer platform (IDP), reusable reference architectures, and self‑service automation that shorten idea‑to‑production cycles.
• Lead architecture governance, codifying standards and guardrails, managing technical debt, ensuring compliance, and minimizing architectural risk.
• Partner with Product and Technology leaders to design end‑to‑end solutions across internal and third‑party systems—defining integration patterns, API/data contracts, clear ownership boundaries, and SLAs.
• Institutionalize SRE fundamentals and advance Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
• Embed security and privacy by design—partner with Security/Risk to implement Zero Trust, secrets and key management, vulnerability & patch orchestration, data protection, and regulatory controls (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA) across platforms and pipelines.
• Use business criticality classification to drive resiliency, capacity, and performance engineering requirements, with automated IaC policies for topology/redundancy, data protection, observability configuration, SLOs, change management requirements, and IAM policies.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, patterns, and vendors to shape strategic roadmaps—leading build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, and TCO/ROI assessments to de‑risk decisions.
• Coach principal and staff engineers, uplevel engineering practices, and cultivate a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers.
• Deep experience (8+ years) across cloud infrastructure and operations—including Kubernetes/container platforms, platform engineering/IDP, networking and site traffic management/edge platforms, storage, observability, incident management, DR/BCP, and modern change management.
• Hands‑on engineering background with fluency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation (e.g., Python/Go), GitOps/CI/CD, service mesh, and production observability.
• Cloud‑native experience—ideally GCP (e.g., GKE, Cloud Service Mesh, VPC, CloudSQL/AlloyDB/Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, GCE, GCS, Vertex AI, Looker) and Kafka.
• Security‑first mindset with practical knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, security and identity protocols (PKI, TLS/mTLS, OAuth 2.0/OIDC), and privacy/compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA).
• FinOps‑aware—able to model and optimize cost/reliability/latency trade‑offs at scale.
• Bias for clarity and simplicity—reducing complexity and enabling teams to move faster and smarter.
• Analytical problem‑framer who reduces ambiguity into clear, actionable components.
• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.
• Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $175,000–$220,000 USD.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world.