Principal Software Development Engineer – Observability

Expedia Group

Principal Engineer at Expedia Group leading the architecture of an observability platform. Collaborating with teams to improve infrastructure automation and operational excellence.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeSan Jose • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $231,000 - $348,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesMicroservicesPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable and resilient telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces.
Spearhead the strategy, rollout, and support for the OpenTelemetry collector across thousands of services.
Design and build capabilities for data governance, cost allocation, and resource management within the observability platform.
Act as a thought leader, driving the adoption of observability best practices across the engineering organization.
Author and maintain production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and/or Crossplane.
Serve as the final escalation point for complex, cross-cutting production incidents related to the observability platform.
Explore and utilize a wide variety of technologies and tools, such as Go, Java, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Splunk, Clickhouse.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
10 + years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on building and operating large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure automation, or configuration management
Deep expertise in observability principles and the "three pillars": logs, metrics, and traces
Strong hands-on proficiency with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry
Proficient in one or more of: Go, Java, Python
Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, Docker, microservices) and major cloud platforms (AWS preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical/dental/vision
paid time off
Employee Assistance Program
wellness & travel reimbursement
travel discounts
International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as CodeTerraformCrossplaneGoJavaPythonKubernetesDockercloud-native architecturesdistributed systems

Soft Skills

leadershipstrategic planningproblem-solvingcommunicationthought leadershipcollaborationincident managementbest practices adoptionresource managementdata governance

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science