Senior Principal AI Platform Engineer

Travelport; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Medical/dental/vision

401(k) match

New child leave

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Travelport seeks a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to lead engineering platforms and enablement across the org, shaping MCP servers, AI-native APIs, and scalable delivery.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and leadership to advance engineering excellence, drive patterns over policies, and mentor teams in a fast-moving environment. This is a remote US-based role with deep impact on product delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing, building, deploying, and operating production software.
• Hands-on experience with MCP servers and AI/native/LLM-facing APIs.
• Strong cloud-native engineering and production observability capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership and enablement across teams.
• Design, build, and operate MCP servers and agent tooling.
• Create clean APIs for AI-native and REST patterns and manage production serving.
• Develop observability, tracing, and eval harnesses for AI systems.
• Lead a platform squad to accelerate delivery with safe, scalable practices.

Skills

Java

Python

TypeScript

Cloud-native engineering

AI/ML concepts

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Travelport seeks a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer to lead engineering platforms and enablement across the org, shaping MCP servers, AI-native APIs, and scalable delivery.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and leadership to advance engineering excellence, drive patterns over policies, and mentor teams in a fast-moving environment. This is a remote US-based role with deep impact on product delivery.