Senior Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer - Kubernetes

Expedia; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

Paid time off

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Career development resources

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer to lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure cloud solutions powering travel experiences at global scale. You will own multi-cloud platform capabilities, automate infrastructure, and drive reliability while enabling product teams to ship faster.

You’ll collaborate across teams, participate in on-call rotations, and advance observability, security, and deployment automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years (Bachelor’s) or 6+ years (Master’s) of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of infrastructure automation, configuration management or container orchestration
• Experience designing, building, and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure in production
• Proficiency with at least one major cloud provider and IaC
• Ability to design APIs, system integrations, and data models for platform services

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve secure, scalable platform capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Design, implement, and scale orchestration and infrastructure automation using Terraform, KubeFed, and Kubernetes ecosystem tools.
• Configure and enhance service mesh capabilities, including Istio-based patterns for secure service-to-service communication.
• Drive observability, capacity planning, performance analysis, and environment tuning across prod and pre-prod.
• Advance CD practices by automating deployments and integrating IaC into CI/CD pipelines.
• Take ownership in high-pressure scenarios, advocate for resiliency, and explore AI-driven tools to improve engineering outcomes.

Skills

Multi-cloud experience

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

APIs & data models

Security controls

CI/CD automation

Python/Go/Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

Istio

Kubernetes

Crossplane

Terragrunt

CertManager

Kubernetes manifests / YAML

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.

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 Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer role is part of the cloud infrastructure team which sits within our technology division. The cloud infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the foundational cloud platforms, tools, and services that power Expedia Group’s products at global scale, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and cost-efficient. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of robust, scalable cloud solutions that enable product teams to ship features faster and more safely while maintaining high standards of availability and performance.

In this role, you will:

• Architect and evolve secure, scalable platform capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with a focus on connectivity, automation, and infrastructure reliability.
• Design, implement, and scale orchestration and infrastructure automation solutions using tools such as Terraform, KubeFed, and related Kubernetes ecosystem technologies.
• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years (Bachelor’s) or 6+ years (Master’s) of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of infrastructure automation, configuration management or container orchestration
• Several years of experience designing, building, and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure and cloud-native services in production environments, with ownership of multi-service or platform-level systems.
• 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.
• Proven ability to design and support APIs, system integrations, and data models for platform services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability across multiple teams or domains.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency using Terraform to provision, automate, and manage cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.
• Experience working with service mesh implementations in Kubernetes environments, with familiarity in Istio and exposure to emerging patterns such as ambient mesh.
• Familiarity with systems engineering and networking fundamentals, including proxy-based architectures, workload authentication, and core TCP/networking concepts in cloud infrastructure environments.
• Experience working with adjacent cloud infrastructure tooling and frameworks such as Crossplane, Terragrunt, CertManager, Kubernetes load balancer controllers, or similar components used to support secure platform deployments.
• Ability to read, adapt, and support code in languages such as Python, Go, or Java to help migrate legacy tooling and applications into newer Kubernetes-based infrastructure patterns.
• Prior experience developing & maintaining Kubernetes manifests and YAML configurations

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $171,500.00 to $240,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $274,500.00, 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.

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.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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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