Distinguished Software Development Engineer, Marketing Technology

Distinguished Software Development Engineer – Marketing Technology At Expedia Group, we are reinventing the future of marketing technology across our brands. Our platform powers billions in global marketing spend across performance, brand, and creative channels, and we are building more adaptive, intelligent, and autonomous systems to improve growth, efficiency, and capability. Responsibilities Set Technical Direction for the Future of Marketing Systems Define the multi‑year vision for next‑generation marketing platforms across Expedia Group. Identify & drive high‑leverage technical investments that unlock gains in growth, efficiency, quality, and capability. Anticipate AI, automation, and intelligent system impacts on marketing workflows and architect platforms accordingly. Build Intelligent, Extensible Platforms Design systems enabling increasingly autonomous planning, creation, optimization, and execution workflows. Establish scalable interfaces, data contracts, and architectural patterns for safe, effective operation at scale. Lead the shift from point solutions to cohesive, adaptive platform capabilities. Operate at System‑of‑Systems Scale Architect and evolve high‑scale, real‑time platforms spanning bidding, experimentation, decisioning, creative systems, and data infrastructure. Ensure resilience, observability, maintainability, and cost‑effectiveness under significant scale. Drive simplification & convergence across fragmented systems into cohesive platforms. Solve Ambiguous, High‑Impact Problems Lead initiatives where problem, path, and solution are not fully defined. Break down complex, cross‑domain challenges into clear strategy & executable plans. Navigate tradeoffs across performance, latency, cost, reliability, model capability, and business impact. Shape Strategy & Execution Partner with engineering, product, science, marketing, and business leaders to influence what is built and how. Use technical judgment, market awareness, and analytical insight to shape investments, priorities, & long‑term direction. Help shape technology‑enabled traveler experiences that improve discovery, shopping, and booking. Raise the Bar Across the Organization Align senior technical & business leaders around critical architectural decisions and long‑term investments. Define standards, patterns, & best practices that improve engineering quality, speed, reliability, & operational excellence. Build communities of practice and bar‑raising mechanisms across Marketing and Expedia Group. Grow Technical Leaders & Organizational Capability Mentor & sponsor senior engineers & technical leaders. Strengthen the organization through technical leadership, coaching, & example. Act as a force multiplier by creating reusable approaches, improving engineering judgment, & enabling teams to deliver more effectively at scale. Minimum Qualifications 15+ years designing, building, and operating large‑scale, distributed systems with significant multi‑organization impact. Track record of defining & driving technical strategy across teams & influencing adoption across independent organizations. Deep expertise in system architecture, distributed systems, & data‑intensive platforms at scale. Demonstrated leadership of ambiguous, high‑stakes technical initiatives from concept through production. Broad technical depth across multiple layers of the stack – application, platform, data, operational, & business. Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, cloud‑native architectures, & production‑grade engineering practices. Exceptional ability to influence senior leaders & align organizations around complex technical decisions. Preferred Qualifications Experience building AI/ML‑driven or agent‑enabled systems in production (decisioning, optimization, generative systems, or intelligent workflow orchestration). Deep domain expertise in marketing technology, advertising systems, search, experimentation, or optimization platforms. Track record of creating new platforms, primitives, or architectural patterns adopted across an organization. Experience designing systems that balance model capability, latency, cost, reliability, and operational complexity at scale. Proven ability to shape product or business direction through technical insight & systems thinking. Experience building communities, technical programs, or bar‑raising initiatives that improved organizational effectiveness across multiple teams. The total cash compensation range for this position in Seattle is $296,000.00 to $414,500.00, with potential to increase up to $473,500.00 based on ongoing, sustained performance. Expedia Group offers benefits including medical, dental, vision coverage, paid time off, wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent membership. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr 11105 Expedia, Inc.