Distinguished Software Development Engineer, Marketing Technology

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting‑edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees’ passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

At Expedia Group, we are reinventing the future of marketing technology. Our Marketing Technology platform, which is at the intersection of travel, technology, and AI powers global marketing at scale across Google, Meta, Apple, and beyond, and we are evolving for a world where AI systems increasingly participate alongside humans in planning, optimization, and execution.

Our team’s mission is to design best‑in‑class marketing platforms that deliver measurable business impact while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We operate like a startup inside a global company by moving fast, experimenting boldly, and building for scale. Technologies we work with include Golang, Python, Kotlin, React, Kubernetes, Argo, and AWS (EC2, ECS, EMR, RDS, S3). Our current platform already powers billions in global marketing spend across performance, brand, and creative channels.

The next phase is to build more adaptive, intelligent, and autonomous systems that materially improve growth, efficiency, and capability across Expedia Group.

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and build the technical foundations of this transformation. This is not a role confined to a single system or team. It is a company‑level technical leadership role responsible for rethinking how marketing technology works end‑to‑end, from data and decisioning to experimentation, creative generation, and intelligent execution.

If you thrive on solving complex problems with a hands on approach at massive scale, shaping platform strategy, and mentoring world‑class engineers, this is the place for you.

• Define the multi‑year technical vision for next‑generation marketing platforms across Expedia Group.
• Identify and drive high‑leverage technical investments that unlock meaningful gains in growth, efficiency, quality, and organizational capability.
• Anticipate how AI, automation, and intelligent systems will reshape marketing workflows and architect platforms accordingly.

• Design systems that enable increasingly autonomous operation across planning, creation, optimization, and execution workflows.
• Establish scalable interfaces, data contracts, and architectural patterns that allow intelligent systems and services to operate safely and effectively at scale.
• Lead the evolution from workflow automation and point solutions toward cohesive, adaptive platform capabilities.

• Architect and evolve high‑scale, real‑time platforms spanning bidding, experimentation, decisioning, creative systems, and supporting data infrastructure.
• Ensure platforms are resilient, observable, maintainable, and cost‑effective under significant scale and complexity.
• Drive simplification and convergence across fragmented systems into cohesive, extensible platforms.

• Lead initiatives where the problem, path, and solution are not fully defined.
• Break down complex, cross‑domain challenges into clear technical strategy and executable plans.
• Navigate tradeoffs across performance, latency, cost, reliability, model capability, and business impact.

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