Senior Software Engineer - Distribution and Supply

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. Senior Software Development Engineer At Expedia Group, our Distribution and Supply organization builds the core systems powering the global travel marketplace processing trillions of pricing requests daily and serving hundreds of millions of travelers across hotels, vacation rentals, cars and packages, while helping thousands of partners optimize pricing, inventory, and visibility in real time. We're looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and scale our next-generation pricing and marketplace infrastructure. You'll design and operate highly available, low-latency distributed systems handling massive request volumes, owning critical services that directly shape traveler experience and partner success across the Expedia ecosystem. We value engineers who can pick the right tool for the job, our stack spans JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala) and systems languages like Rust, and we're open to the technology that best fits the problem over dogma about any one language. In this role, you will: Design, build, and own scalable, resilient services end-to-end from system design, API design, and data modeling through implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support. Drive technical direction by evaluating trade-offs and setting best practices for code quality, observability, and performance, while mentoring and coaching junior engineers to help them grow. Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to deliver integrated, reliable, scalable solutions. Proactively resolve production issues and improve system reliability through automation and monitoring. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience. 8+ years of experience, highly proficient in Java/JVM languages (Scala, Kotlin) or systems languages like Rust. Demonstrated ownership of services or components through technical design, implementation, quality, and operational health. Strong system design (LLD), API design, and data modeling skills, with experience in microservices architectures, automated testing, and CI/CD. Preferred Qualifications Experience with large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems and have led performance tuning, capacity planning, and resilience engineering. Hands-on experience with Rust or other systems-level languages for performance-critical, low-latency components. Track record of technical leadership such as leading/reviewing designs and code, and mentoring/coaching junior engineers to influence best practices across teams. Strong observability and operational excellence skills such as metrics, alerting, incident response, and post-incident analysis. Familiarity with AI-driven development tools (code generation, testing, operational insights), applied responsibly to boost productivity. The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future. Benefits and perks Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. medical coverage dental coverage vision coverage paid time off Employee Assistance Program wellness and travel reimbursement travel discounts International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership Learn more about life at Expedia Group at . 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