Senior Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer - Istio Service Mesh

Expedia Group•Chicago, IL

3d•$171,500 - $240,000

About The Position

This Senior Cloud Infrastructure Development Engineer role is part of the cloud infrastructure team which sits within our technology division. The cloud infrastructure team designs, builds, and operates the foundational cloud platforms, tools, and services that power Expedia Group’s products at global scale, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and cost-efficient. As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of robust, scalable cloud solutions that enable product teams to ship features faster and more safely while maintaining high standards of availability and performance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years (Bachelor's) or 6+ years (Master's) of professional software engineering experience
3+ years of infrastructure automation, configuration management or container orchestration
Several years of experience designing, building, and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure and cloud-native services in production environments, with ownership of multi-service or platform-level systems.
Demonstrated proficiency with at least one major public cloud provider, container orchestration concepts, networking, and security controls, including hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation.
Proven ability to design and support APIs, system integrations, and data models for platform services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability across multiple teams or domains.
Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Go, or Java.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and implementing Service Mesh within Kubernetes environments, including strong knowledge of Istio and familiarity with emerging architectures such as Ambient Mesh.
Advanced proficiency developing Kubernetes-related tooling, controllers, operators, or automation using Go (Golang).
Proficient with Terraform for provisioning, automating, and managing cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.
Solid understanding of systems engineering and networking fundamentals, including proxy-based architectures, workload identity and authentication, service-to-service communication, and TCP/IP networking concepts within cloud environments.
Experience with cloud-native infrastructure tooling and frameworks such as Crossplane, Terragrunt, cert-manager, Kubernetes Load Balancer Controllers, or similar technologies used to support scalable and secure platform operations.
Prior experience creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and YAML-based configurations.

Responsibilities

Architect and evolve secure, scalable platform capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, with a focus on connectivity, automation, and infrastructure reliability.
Design, implement, and scale orchestration and infrastructure automation solutions using tools such as Terraform, KubeFed, and related Kubernetes ecosystem technologies.
Configure, implement, and enhance service mesh capabilities, including ingress controller patterns and Istio-based solutions, to support secure service-to-service communication and workload connectivity.
Drive observability, capacity planning, system and service performance analysis, and environment tuning, while debugging issues across production and pre-production environments.
Advance continuous delivery practices by automating application and infrastructure deployments, integrating infrastructure as code into CI/CD pipelines, and detecting and remediating deployment issues.
Take ownership of high-pressure operational scenarios by applying calm, data-driven decision making, advocating for operational excellence through resiliency, scalability, testing, and service-level practices, participating in on-call rotations, and exploring new technologies, including AI-driven tools and workflows, that improve engineering outcomes.