Principal Software Development Engineer

Travelport•Denver, CO

4d•Remote

About The Position

Travelport is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to join their team. This role is focused on improving how teams build, test, release, and operate software by designing and scaling delivery tooling, automating workflows, and creating reusable patterns. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technical leader comfortable bridging technical details and organizational change, with strong communication and mentoring skills to drive adoption of better software delivery practices across engineering, DevOps, and platform teams.

Requirements

Strong experience working across software engineering, DevOps and platform engineering environments.
Proven ability to build or improve CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions or similar tooling.
Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code.
Good working knowledge of AWS, including how to build secure, scalable and automated cloud environments.
Experience with Argo CD, Argo Rollouts or similar deployment automation tools.
Ability to design repeatable, scalable patterns rather than one-off solutions for individual teams.
Comfortable working with engineering teams to understand their needs, challenge current ways of working and build practical improvements.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical change clearly to different audiences.
Experience leading change across engineering teams, including adoption of new tools, processes and standards.
A mentoring mindset, with the ability to bring others along rather than simply building in isolation.

Nice To Haves

Java and Spring Boot experience, especially where the role supports application engineering teams directly.
Experience working in a platform engineering, developer experience or internal tooling function.
Exposure to progressive delivery, blue-green deployments, canary releases or similar deployment approaches.
Experience building self-service tooling or paved-road patterns for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and build of internal tools and delivery patterns that accelerate software development and deployment.
Develop and improve custom CI/CD pipelines to automate standard engineering and operational workflows.
Integrate with tools such as Argo CD and Argo Rollouts to support automated, reliable and progressive deployments.
Create repeatable patterns for build, release, deployment and infrastructure workflows that can scale across multiple teams.
Work closely with developers, DevOps, platform engineering and technical leaders to understand pain points and turn them into practical solutions.
Support teams in adopting new tools, processes and ways of working, making sure change is well understood and easy to follow.
Help define good engineering practices around automation, deployment, infrastructure as code and operational readiness.
Act as a mentor and technical partner for teams, helping engineers build confidence with new tooling and delivery processes.
Balance hands-on technical contribution with the ability to influence, communicate and drive change across the organization.

Benefits

Bonus program eligibility based on individual and company performance.
Comprehensive benefit program including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Employer-paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance.
Voluntary life options.
Competitive 401(k) match.
Various other voluntary benefits.
Generous paid time off policy.
Hybrid working model.
Annual volunteer day off.
New Child leave policy: 16 weeks paid for birthing parent, 8 weeks for non-birthing parent.