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 Why Join Us 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 Principal Software Development Engineer Introduction to team Are you an experienced engineer passionate about building scalable high-impact systems that power millions of traveler decisions every day Expedia Group s Reviews Engineering team is looking for a Principal Engineer to shape the technical vision and architecture of our next-generation Reviews platform the trusted engine that collects curates enriches and distributes traveler-generated reviews across our brands and partners globally As part of the Content domain the Reviews platform plays a mission-critical role helping travelers make confident booking decisions and enabling partners to understand and improve their guest experience You ll lead the design of resilient compliant and intelligent systems that operate at global scale ensuring trust reliability and innovation at the heart of Expedia s marketplace In this role you will Architect and evolve the end-to-end Reviews platform to acquire process and surface high-quality traveler reviews across Expedia Group brands Drive technical strategy and platform modernization across all Reviews subdomains Collection Moderation and Distribution ensuring scalability resilience and compliance Define and influence cross-domain architecture collaborating with teams across Content Search and Lodging to maximize data reuse and interoperability Lead system design for large-scale low-latency services that power customer-facing experiences and partner insights Contribute hands-on by writing clean performant and production-ready code for complex distributed systems Collaborate with product and data science teams to enable intelligent review insights through machine learning moderation automation and relevancy scoring Champion operational excellence ensuring high availability Tier-1 reliability observability and continuous improvement Mentor and elevate other engineers by fostering strong engineering principles code quality and architectural rigor Influence technical roadmap and strategy ensuring alignment with Expedia Group s platform evolution and compliance standards Experience and Qualifications 10 years of engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems in high-traffic environments Deep expertise in Java Kotlin AWS Docker Kubernetes Spring Boot caching and database platforms CI CD and architectural design patterns Proven track record of designing resilient low-latency systems that handle large-scale user-generated content or similar Tier-1 workloads Strong understanding of cloud-native design microservices architecture and data pipelines Experience with machine learning integration content moderation or text analytics is a plus Excellent collaborator who can influence across globally distributed teams Passionate about platform thinking balancing reliability developer productivity and business agility Effective communicator with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences A One Expedia team player who values transparency mentorship and shared success Accommodation requests If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability or 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📌 Principal Software Development Engineer (Karnataka)
🏢 Expedia Group
📍 Karnataka