Senior Director, Flights Engineering

PRICELINE CAREERS; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Senior Director of Flights Engineering to lead software teams powering the Flight Shopping Platform. You will shape technology strategy, scale delivery, and drive cross-functional execution across global teams in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment.

You will guide multi-team roadmaps, influence architectural decisions, and champion AI/agentic engineering practices to accelerate innovation while maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and development.
• 5+ years experience in leading software development teams.
• Proven track record managing a mix of people-managers and senior ICs, overseeing an org of 20+ across multiple teams
• B2C, e-commerce, or OTA experience, ideally with a strong experimentation culture; travel industry experience a plus
• Skilled at hiring, coaching, and developing engineering leaders, including performance management of managers
• Experience operating across global, cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities through organizational change
• Proven collaboration skills with both technical and less-technical colleagues.
• Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP and AWS.
• Strong system-architecture fluency, with comfort partnering deeply on technical decisions

Responsibilities

• Lead and be responsible for software development teams that own the services powering Priceline’s Flight Shopping Platform.
• Serve as a leader of leaders, scaling delivery and cross-functional execution through your teams.
• Drive technology strategy, operational backbone, and system architecture decisions across the flights domain.
• Lead adoption of AI/agentic engineering practices to accelerate shopping-experience innovation.
• Own the multi-team roadmap and partner with Product Group Engineering leads, flight commercial stakeholders, and cross-functional peers to set priorities and long-term technical direction.
• Manage and coach talented managers and engineers of all levels of experience.
• Have influence on what we build, how we build, and how we work.
• Participate in various formal and/or grass-roots technical and non-technical communities at Priceline.
• Become part of a team and organization that is passionate about our work, but values a healthy work/life balance.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud experience

System architecture

People management

Hiring & coaching

Collaboration

Global/intl experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GCP

AWS

Job description

Senior Director, Flights Engineering

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

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal:

As one of our leaders, you’ll have a big impact on our products and their technical direction, as well as influence the company's technical strategy. You will also have a big impact on your team members, their day-to-day experience on our team and their growth over time. To continuously deliver on our goal to be the best travel deal makers in the world for millions of our customers, we need to have well designed technology that is reliable, performs well, and allows for the continuous improvements we make to our products, and we also need to have teams that feel engaged, productive, empowered, and sustainable. All of this requires talented leaders with the right mix of technical, collaborative, management, and leadership skills and values.

In this role you will get to:

Lead and be responsible for a software development teams that owns the services that power Priceline’s Flight Shopping Platform

Serve as a leader of leaders, scaling delivery and cross-functional execution through your teams

Drive technology strategy, operational backbone, and system architecture decisions across the flights domain

Lead adoption of AI/agentic engineering practices to accelerate shopping-experience innovation

Own the multi-team roadmap and partner with Product Group Engineering leads, flight commercial stakeholders, and cross-functional peers to set priorities and long-term technical direction

Manage and coach talented managers and engineers of all levels of experience.

Have influence on what we build, how we build, and how we work.

Participate in various formal and/or grass-roots technical and non-technical communities at Priceline.

Become part of a team and organization that is passionate about our work, but values a healthy work/life balance.

Who you are:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.

15+ years of experience in software engineering and development.

5+ years experience in leading software development teams.

Proven track record managing a mix of people-managers and senior ICs, overseeing an org of 20+ across multiple teams

B2C, e-commerce, or OTA experience, ideally with a strong experimentation culture; travel industry experience a plus

Skilled at hiring, coaching, and developing engineering leaders, including performance management of managers

Experience operating across global, cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities through organizational change

Proven collaboration skills with both technical and less-technical colleagues.

Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP and AWS.

Strong system-architecture fluency, with comfort partnering deeply on technical decisions

Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.

The salary range for this position is $210,000- $265,000K USD.