Job description 

Are you an engineer with a passion for infrastructure and platforms? We are looking for an upbeat, collaborative, and creative individual who is excited about the opportunity to develop a compute platform for the worlds largest travel company!

The Runtime Compute team provides container orchestration capabilities across Expedia Group and its portfolio of Brands. You'll join our team of engineers and developers from around the world as we solve some of the largest e-commerce compute challenges in the Fortune 500 arena. Your pursuit to deliver scalable and reliable solutions will be meaningful in our mission to remove infrastructure as a distraction and provide a platform as a service.

What you will do:

• Working closely with a wide range of container automation tooling such as Kubernetes and EKS
• Design, implement, and maintain a secure scalable compute platform as it evolves with the industry
• You will champion SRE methodologies around monitoring, alerting, and establishing SLOs, SLAs
• You will identify and execute on opportunities to optimize existing systems, improve infrastructure and eliminate work through automation
• Work alongside other teams in helping provide post mortem analysis of why services broke or became degraded.
• Demonstrate ability to provide exceptional verbal and written communications
• De sign and build automation suites to streamline operational support.
• Good understanding of CNCF tools like ArgoCD, Crossplane and Kyverno
• Established understanding of observability fundamentals (Logging, Metrics, Tracing)
• Excellent organizational, communication, and technical skills
• Ability to learn quickly, master our existing systems and identify areas of improvement
• Have a strong technical background and ability to think creatively to solve problems.
• Strong critical thinking skills, with a test & learn mentality and willingness to try, fail, learn.
• Acquainted with Kubernetes Operators, Controllers and CRDs functionalities
• You will participate in our on-call rotation for production services we build

Who you are:

• You bring a deep understanding and application of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Experience with containerised applications as well as automation like EKS or Kubernetes
• You have exposure to and understanding of cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc.) architectures/services.
• ​Excellent understanding of Multi cluster management, operating at Scale
• Established understanding of observability fundamentals (Logging, Metrics, Tracing)
• Excellent organizational, communication, and technical skills
• Ability to learn quickly, master our existing systems and identify areas of improvement
• Have a strong technical background and ability to think creatively to solve problems.
• Strong critical thinking skills, with a test & learn mentality and willingness to try, fail, learn.