Senior Software Development Engineer - Content Platform
$171,500–$240,000 year
On-siteChicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
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 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. 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.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 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)
- Strong skills working with relational or NoSQL databases (Redis/Valkey, Cassandra and ScyllaDB preferred), including schema design and data access patterns for content systems
Desired 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 into existing content services and pipelines
- Experience applying AI or ML techniques to content‐centric or data‐rich systems (for example, classification, enrichment, deduplication, or recommendation) to enhance content quality, coverage, and developer effectiveness
- Experience leveraging translation, localization and internationalization tools and technologies
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