Site Reliability Engineer, Expedia Group
Chaos Engineering
Online travel shopping company
Job no longer available
Online travel shopping company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Expedia's mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- We’re seeking a self-starter who is highly organized, communicative, and passionate about quality, reliability, and ensuring a seamless experience for travelers
- Strong Object-Oriented design knowledge and development experience with 1 or more of Java, Go or Python
- 3+ years’ software development experience working in a team environment
- Strong observability engineering experience and exposure to Prometheus, Grafana or SaaS-based monitoring platforms (DataDog preferred)
- Experience with chaos engineering tools (e.g. AWS FIS, Germlin, Chaos Mesh, Chaos Monkey etc.)
- Experience with deploying onto containerisation and orchestration platforms (such as Docker and Kubernetes)
- Experience with cloud platforms and services (AWS preferred)
- Strong communication skills (able to explain concepts to non-technical people as well as engineering peers)
- Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
What the job involves
- As a Software Development Engineer, you will be contributing the development and adoption of reliability, scalability and performance of the world’s largest online travel platform at scale within the Reliability Engineering organization
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for identifying system weaknesses and helping build resilient, fault-tolerant architectures across Expedia
- You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enhance fault injection capabilities, design and execute chaos experiments, analyze results, and drive solutions to improve service stability
- Design, implement, and execute chaos experiments to test and improve the resilience of distributed systems
- Develop and maintain chaos engineering frameworks, tools, and automation, ensuring scalability and ease of use across teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify areas for fault injection and embed chaos engineering practices into development workflows
- Analyse and interpret experiment results, providing actionable insights to enhance system stability and reliability
- Proactively monitor application health and address issues through effective troubleshooting, logging, and resolution of technical blockers
- Contribute to technical design, functional analysis, and implementation of mid-to-large-scale reliability projects, following best coding practices
- Promote best development methodologies through code reviews, software design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Stay up to date with industry trends in chaos engineering, cloud architectures, and distributed systems to drive innovation and continuous improvement
Application process
- End Date: May 19, 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Expedia is an online travel agency. They enable users to access a wide range of services including airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the world wide web and telephone travel agents. Its primary web businesses include Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, and Egencia.com.
Between 2021 and 2022, Expedia has been selling and merging a list of its sub-brands in a bid to simplify its operations, including Egencia and Classic Vacations. Due to plummeting share prices, mostly in the case of its sub-brands, Expedia has been leveraging its subsidiaries' customer base and merging them into the company’s core brand. Contrasting this move, Expedia has also been partnering with tech start-ups in a bid to make travel more accessible to underserved groups. Becoming Rentable, a travel company for the disabled is one of 12 startups that are part of Expedia Group’s new Open World Accelerator Programme.
What this indicates is Expedia’s shift from buying other travel companies and a move towards enhancing the experience of its preexisting customer base. This move is aiding in a long-term plan for greater long-term traveler loyalty, utilizing Expedia’s vast amounts of data, not just from reviews, but from check-in, cleanliness, communication, cancelations, etc to inform how guests experience a property.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Leisure Travel Reimbursement
- Travel Discounts
- Family & Friends Discount
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Global Service Awards
- Business Travel Medical Insurance
- Matching Gifts
- Expert Medical Opinion
- New Parent Benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Private Health Insurance
Company HQ
Interbay, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Peter M. Kern
(CEO, not founder)Has been a director of Expedia Group since completion of the IAC/Expedia Group Spin-Off and has served as Vice Chairman of Expedia Group since June 2018. Previously CEO of Tribune Media and Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners VII, LP, a private equity firm.
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