Senior Director, Global Platform Engineering

11105 Expedia, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 296,000 - 474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group's Experience Platform organization seeks a strategic, technically credible leader to modernize the platform for the AI era, guiding how we deliver fast, configurable services to travelers, partners, and internal teams.

You will run a globally distributed team of approximately 130 across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations, partnering with the Chief Architect and senior technology leaders to elevate engineering practices and enterprise architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.
• Experience operating with a platform mindset, treating internal developers and product teams as customers.
• Proven experience with experience platforms, commerce platforms, design systems, CMS technologies, configurable platforms, or developer platforms.
• Strong technical credibility, including the ability to engage deeply in platform architecture and enterprise technology decisions.
• A record of scaling engineering organizations while combining strategic vision with strong execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed organization of approximately 130 employees across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations.
• Establish modern, high-quality platform engineering practices that improve the experience of internal developers and product teams.
• Guide the evolution of experience platform services, web and app infrastructure, CMS technologies, design systems, and configurable platform capabilities.
• Partner closely with the Chief Architect and senior technology leaders to influence technical direction and execute enterprise architecture decisions.
• Elevate leadership capability, strengthen engineering practices, and introduce innovative approaches to a technically mature organization.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and other Expedia Group functions.
• Challenge existing assumptions constructively and lead meaningful modernization rather than incremental improvement.
• Attract, develop, and retain a diverse organization of engineering and program management talent.

Skills

Large-scale engineering

Platform mindset

Enterprise architecture

Cross-functional influence

Job description

Expedia Group's Experience Platform organization seeks a strategic, technically credible leader to modernize the platform for the AI era, guiding how we deliver fast, configurable services to travelers, partners, and internal teams.

You will run a globally distributed team of approximately 130 across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations, partnering with the Chief Architect and senior technology leaders to elevate engineering practices and enterprise architecture decisions.