Software Development Engineer III: GraphQL Platform

Expedia•Austin, TX

2d•$146,000 - $233,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success. We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us. We're the team behind the GraphQL platform that powers mission-critical service across Expedia Group. We design and operate the core infrastructure, including high-throughput federated GraphQL routers and schema tooling. We’re solving complex challenges in API performance, schema evolution at scale, and platform reliability. We're looking for an engineer who are excited about building high-performance distributed systems, putting the GraphQL spec in practice, and shaping how modern platforms are built.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent related professional experience and 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, ideally in large-scale or enterprise environments.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
Experience developing features with Rust or Kotlin and a solid understanding of API design in GraphQL services
Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining robust, scalable, high-throughput applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platform like AWS
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, or GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

Design, build and develop the core GraphQL platform, including the router, schema workflows, and supporting infrastructure
Provide technical support and guidance to platform users
Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to find solutions to best increase developer productivity
Optimize existing observability and monitoring solutions
Participate in code reviews to assess overcall code quality and flexibility
Drive continuous improvement and continuous delivery in our software development process within an agile development team.
Leverage AI to modernize our platform tools