Senior Cloud Software Engineer

Company Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

The Senior Software Engineer is a subject matter expert in full-stack software engineering with Alaska Airlines (AS) and Hawaiian Airlines (HA). As an individual contributor, this role exercises considerable judgment to make decisions that support our products top-to-bottom and ship software on a regular basis (anywhere from daily to every two weeks). This role also provides recommendations to address challenges while working in an agile environment with product owners.

Key Duties

• Act as a subject matter expert in full-stack engineering on a scrum delivery team, collaborating with product owners, designers, and other engineers to deliver business value on an iterative basis.

• Coach and influences team members on best practices and emerging technologies.

• Solve complex technology and business problems with new and creative methods.

• Architect, engineer, test, deploy, and support highly scalable and maintainable complex, end-to-end custom software applications.

• Ensure delivery of high-quality software by writing clean code and utilizing pair programming, test-driven development (TDD), and continuous integration.

• Actively engage in the technology industry, networks and understands how evolving technologies can benefit our organization.

• Influence cross-functionality and partner with other disciplines to develop strategy.

• Develop a solid understanding of the team’s guest experience, business, and systems.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 4 years of experience in software engineering, or related area.

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Computer Science or a related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.

• Experience in the following:

  • Test Automation.

  • Utilizing cloud computing.

  • Acting as a software engineer building custom, high scale, n-tier applications using object-oriented languages.

  • Developing web or mobile applications using modern technologies.

  • Utilizing appropriate design patterns to create clean, maintainable, and performant code.

  • Interacting with Git version control to maintain organization and logging of codebase changes.

  • Performing TDD, unit testing, pair programming, and other XP techniques.

• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability introducing new ideas and technologies to communities of developers.

• High degree of professionalism and customer service orientation.

• Excellent communication skills and proven ability to collaborate with a variety of teams.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Minimum age of 18.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Hands‑on experience with Azure cloud services and enterprise‑scale cloud patterns, including networking, identity, access management, policy, security controls, and governance.

• Experience with infrastructure as code, automation, and scripting using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, YAML, Bash, or similar technologies in production environments.

• Experience building internal platforms, shared services, reusable engineering patterns, or self‑service cloud capabilities for application teams, including partnering with platform‑owning teams and cloud providers to troubleshoot issues and drive practical solutions.

• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, or similar tools to support troubleshooting, reliability, and operational insight.

• Experience with cloud cost management, tagging, governance, or FinOps practices to improve visibility, accountability, and efficient use of cloud resources.

• Exposure to generative AI or AI‑assisted development tools, with an interest in applying them responsibly to improve engineering productivity, documentation, automation, or troubleshooting.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Salary Range

$117,700-$176,550 / year

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand‑by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air

• Comprehensive well‑being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits

• Generous 401k match program

• Annual bonus plans

• Generous holiday and paid time off

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Regulatory Information

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973(“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974(“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.

To implement this policy, we will:

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;

(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and

(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity.

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre‑employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety‑sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.

FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Location Seattle - Hub
L: #LI-B
Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2026-20302
Category Corporate & Operations