Director, Software Development Engineering

As Director, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for Reservations across two of Expedia Group's largest lines of business: Conventional Lodging (hotels) and Vacation Rentals (Vrbo). This platform ensures that the booking is completed across all systems starting from the moment a traveler clicks "book" till the moment a supplier, a hotel property or a vacation rental host, actually confirms that room or home. It is the system of record and execution for every reservation created, retrieved, changed, cancelled, and reconciled across every EG brand and every point of sale, globally.

The scale of these platforms is substantially high since Conventional Lodging alone represents a large majority of Expedia's transaction volume, processing bookings across local inventory, third-party inventory, and GDS supply. Vacation Rentals adds a second, structurally distinct booking model, whole-property rentals with owner/property-manager supply, dynamic quote-and-hold flows, and its own settlement and payout mechanics. Across both businesses, this organization owns dozens of production services spanning booking orchestration, price/availability validation, fulfillment, cancellation, change management, settlement, and event publishing to finance and analytics.

Platform capabilities you will own and continue to raise the bar on:

• Scalability - supporting booking, retrieve, and post-booking traffic that scales across markets, brands, and business models without re-architecting for every new use case.

• High-performance - the team is actively driving end-to-end booking latency down, because every additional second at checkout measurably costs conversion and revenue.

• High throughput - the platform must absorb booking, price-check, and inventory-adjustment traffic at production scale continuously, including peak demand events, without degrading the traveler experience.

• Resiliency - this is a highly compliant and audited revenue-critical system, designed with redundancy, safe rollout mechanisms, and recovery paths, because a failed booking is a failed sale.

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Preferred Qualifications:

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• Background with

(e.g., container orchestration, service meshes, streaming platforms, managed databases) in a high‑scale environment.

• Experience leading

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• Demonstrated success driving

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