Senior Software Development Engineer - Content Platform

Expedia; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on Content to help design, build, and evolve its content and catalog services.

You will lead system and low-level design for scalable content platforms, collaborating with product and architecture teams to deliver high-availability services. The role emphasizes AI/ML-enabled content workflows and strong emphasis on engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience owning backend or full-stack services in production.
• Proven experience designing service-oriented or microservice architectures including API design and data modeling.
• Proficiency in Kotlin or Java and working with relational or NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve complex services and data models powering content/catalog experiences.
• Lead system design and low-level design for content and catalog services.
• Drive end-to-end delivery for multi-service features across discovery, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, and partner teams to define requirements.
• Improve CI/CD, observability, and incident response; mentor engineers.
• Safely integrate AI/ML-enabled solutions into content workflows.

Skills

Kotlin or Java

Backend development

Microservices design

API design

Data modeling

CI/CD automation

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Redis/KeyDB

Cassandra

ScyllaDB

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer (Content)

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business. Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Introduction to the team

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams 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. Within Expedia Product & Technology, our Content organization enables Expedia Group to acquire, enrich and distribute hundreds of millions of assets (images, texts, attributes, videos, etc.) used across our various brands and lines of businesses. While planning your next trip on Expedia Group websites or mobile applications, every step of your experience was enhanced by our Content!

Our team is dedicated to delivering highly scalable software solutions in an agile development environment, using state-of-the-art technologies. Our culture provides a safe environment to spark creativity and encourage continuous learning and growth. Much of our development is on back-end services. We work in a DevOps model where developers are involved in all aspects of software development from design to test, implementation, deployment, monitoring and support.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and evolve complex services, APIs, and data models that power Expedia Group's content and product catalog experiences, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Lead system design and low-level design (LLD) efforts for content and catalog services, including API design, contracts, and data modeling that enable scalable and reusable solutions across multiple domains.
• Drive end‑to‑end delivery for multi‑service features, from technical discovery and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support, raising the engineering bar for the team.
• Collaborate closely with product, architecture, and partner engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver content capabilities that are reusable across lines of business and markets.
• Champion engineering excellence by improving CI/CD pipelines, observability, operational readiness, and incident response for content systems, while mentoring other engineers in best practices.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled and AI‑assisted solutions into content workflows and services, applying AI/ML concepts to real‑world products and improving content quality, coverage, and developer productivity.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Several years of professional software development experience owning one or more backend or full‑stack services in a production environment, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Proven experience designing and implementing service‑oriented or microservice architectures for complex content or catalog‑like domains, including API design, data modeling, and low‑level/system design.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Kotlin or Java preferred) and associated frameworks, plus strong skills working with relational or NoSQL databases (Redis/Valkey, Cassandra and ScyllaDB preferred), including schema design and data access patterns for content systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and operating large‑scale, high‑throughput content, catalog, or similar distributed systems with strong focus on performance, availability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
• Demonstrated leadership in driving architecture and technical direction across multiple services or a domain, including evolving APIs, contracts, data models, and integration patterns in partnership with architecture and product.
• Strong track record of improving engineering efficiency and reliability through automation, CI/CD optimization, test strategy, observability, and operational excellence for mission‑critical services.
• Familiarity with AI‑driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating AI/ML‑enabled solutions in