Distinguished Engineer, Marketing Technology
Expedia, Inc., Seattle, WA, United States
About Expedia Group
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.
Why Join Us
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and we know when one of us wins, we all win.
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.
Team and Role Overview
At Expedia Group, we are reinventing the future of marketing technology. Our Marketing Technology platform is at the intersection of travel, technology, and AI and powers global marketing at scale across Google, Meta, Apple, and beyond. Our team designs best‑in‑class marketing platforms that deliver measurable business impact while pushing boundaries. Technologies we work with include Golang, Python, Kotlin, React, Kubernetes, Argo, and AWS (EC2, ECS, EMR, RDS, S3).
As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and build the technical foundations of this transformation. This is not a role confined to a single system or team; it is company‑level technical leadership responsible for rethinking how marketing technology works end‑to‑end, from data and decisioning to experimentation, creative generation, and intelligent execution.
Key Responsibilities
Set Technical Direction for the Future of Marketing Systems
Define the multi‑year technical vision for next‑generation marketing platforms across Expedia Group.
Identify and drive high‑leverage technical investments that unlock meaningful gains in growth, efficiency, quality, and organizational capability.
Anticipate how AI, automation, and intelligent systems will reshape marketing workflows and architect platforms accordingly.
Build intelligent, extensible platforms
Design systems that enable increasingly autonomous operation across planning, creation, optimization, and execution workflows.
Establish scalable interfaces, data contracts, and architectural patterns that allow intelligent systems and services to operate safely and effectively at scale.
Lead the evolution from workflow automation and point solutions toward cohesive, adaptive platform capabilities.
Operate at system‑of‑systems scale
Architect and evolve high‑scale, real‑time platforms spanning bidding, experimentation, decisioning, creative systems, and supporting data infrastructure.
Ensure platforms are resilient, observable, maintainable, and cost‑effective under significant scale and complexity.
Drive simplification and convergence across fragmented systems into cohesive, extensible platforms.
Solve ambiguous, high‑impact problems
Lead initiatives where the problem, path, and solution are not fully defined.
Break down complex, cross‑domain challenges into clear technical strategy and executable plans.
Navigate tradeoffs across performance, latency, cost, reliability, model capability, and business impact.
Shape both strategy and execution
Partner with engineering, product, science, marketing, and business leaders to influence what should be built and how it should be built.
Use technical judgment, market awareness, and analytical insight to help shape investments, priorities, and long‑term platform direction.
Help shape technology‑enabled traveler experiences that improve discovery, shopping, and booking across Expedia Group brands and channels.
Raise the bar across the organization
Align senior technical and business leaders around critical architectural decisions and long‑term investments.
Define standards, patterns, and best practices that improve engineering quality, speed, reliability, and operational excellence across Expedia Group.
Build communities of practice and bar‑raising mechanisms across Marketing and Expedia Group that help teams deliver faster and with higher quality.
Grow technical leaders and organizational capability
Mentor and sponsor senior engineers and technical leaders.
Strengthen the organization through technical leadership, coaching, and example.
Act as a force multiplier by creating reusable approaches, improving engineering judgment, and enabling teams to deliver more effectively at scale.
Minimum Qualifications
15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large‑scale, distributed systems, with significant impact across multiple organizations, platforms, or domains.
Proven track record of defining and driving technical strategy across teams and influencing adoption across independent organizations.
Deep expertise in system architecture, distributed systems, and data‑intensive platforms at scale.
Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, high‑stakes technical initiatives from concept through production.
Broad technical depth across multiple layers of the stack, with the ability to reason holistically across application, platform, data, operational, and business concerns.
Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, cloud‑native architectures, and production‑grade engineering practices.
Exceptional ability to influence senior leaders and align organizations around complex technical decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building AI/ML‑driven or agent‑enabled systems in production, including decisioning, optimization, generative systems, or intelligent workflow orchestration.
Deep domain expertise in marketing technology, advertising systems, search, experimentation, or optimization platforms.
Track record of creating new platforms, primitives, or architectural patterns adopted across an organization.
Experience designing systems that balance model capability, latency, cost, reliability, and operational complexity at scale.
Proven ability to shape product or business direction through technical insight and systems thinking.
Experience building communities, technical programs, or bar‑raising initiatives that improved organizational effectiveness across multiple teams.
Compensation
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $296,000.00 to $414,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $473,500.00, the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Accommodations
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E‑Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I‑9 to confirm work authorization.
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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.
Why Join Us
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and we know when one of us wins, we all win.
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.
Team and Role Overview
At Expedia Group, we are reinventing the future of marketing technology. Our Marketing Technology platform is at the intersection of travel, technology, and AI and powers global marketing at scale across Google, Meta, Apple, and beyond. Our team designs best‑in‑class marketing platforms that deliver measurable business impact while pushing boundaries. Technologies we work with include Golang, Python, Kotlin, React, Kubernetes, Argo, and AWS (EC2, ECS, EMR, RDS, S3).
As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and build the technical foundations of this transformation. This is not a role confined to a single system or team; it is company‑level technical leadership responsible for rethinking how marketing technology works end‑to‑end, from data and decisioning to experimentation, creative generation, and intelligent execution.
Key Responsibilities
Set Technical Direction for the Future of Marketing Systems
Define the multi‑year technical vision for next‑generation marketing platforms across Expedia Group.
Identify and drive high‑leverage technical investments that unlock meaningful gains in growth, efficiency, quality, and organizational capability.
Anticipate how AI, automation, and intelligent systems will reshape marketing workflows and architect platforms accordingly.
Build intelligent, extensible platforms
Design systems that enable increasingly autonomous operation across planning, creation, optimization, and execution workflows.
Establish scalable interfaces, data contracts, and architectural patterns that allow intelligent systems and services to operate safely and effectively at scale.
Lead the evolution from workflow automation and point solutions toward cohesive, adaptive platform capabilities.
Operate at system‑of‑systems scale
Architect and evolve high‑scale, real‑time platforms spanning bidding, experimentation, decisioning, creative systems, and supporting data infrastructure.
Ensure platforms are resilient, observable, maintainable, and cost‑effective under significant scale and complexity.
Drive simplification and convergence across fragmented systems into cohesive, extensible platforms.
Solve ambiguous, high‑impact problems
Lead initiatives where the problem, path, and solution are not fully defined.
Break down complex, cross‑domain challenges into clear technical strategy and executable plans.
Navigate tradeoffs across performance, latency, cost, reliability, model capability, and business impact.
Shape both strategy and execution
Partner with engineering, product, science, marketing, and business leaders to influence what should be built and how it should be built.
Use technical judgment, market awareness, and analytical insight to help shape investments, priorities, and long‑term platform direction.
Help shape technology‑enabled traveler experiences that improve discovery, shopping, and booking across Expedia Group brands and channels.
Raise the bar across the organization
Align senior technical and business leaders around critical architectural decisions and long‑term investments.
Define standards, patterns, and best practices that improve engineering quality, speed, reliability, and operational excellence across Expedia Group.
Build communities of practice and bar‑raising mechanisms across Marketing and Expedia Group that help teams deliver faster and with higher quality.
Grow technical leaders and organizational capability
Mentor and sponsor senior engineers and technical leaders.
Strengthen the organization through technical leadership, coaching, and example.
Act as a force multiplier by creating reusable approaches, improving engineering judgment, and enabling teams to deliver more effectively at scale.
Minimum Qualifications
15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large‑scale, distributed systems, with significant impact across multiple organizations, platforms, or domains.
Proven track record of defining and driving technical strategy across teams and influencing adoption across independent organizations.
Deep expertise in system architecture, distributed systems, and data‑intensive platforms at scale.
Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, high‑stakes technical initiatives from concept through production.
Broad technical depth across multiple layers of the stack, with the ability to reason holistically across application, platform, data, operational, and business concerns.
Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, cloud‑native architectures, and production‑grade engineering practices.
Exceptional ability to influence senior leaders and align organizations around complex technical decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building AI/ML‑driven or agent‑enabled systems in production, including decisioning, optimization, generative systems, or intelligent workflow orchestration.
Deep domain expertise in marketing technology, advertising systems, search, experimentation, or optimization platforms.
Track record of creating new platforms, primitives, or architectural patterns adopted across an organization.
Experience designing systems that balance model capability, latency, cost, reliability, and operational complexity at scale.
Proven ability to shape product or business direction through technical insight and systems thinking.
Experience building communities, technical programs, or bar‑raising initiatives that improved organizational effectiveness across multiple teams.
Compensation
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $296,000.00 to $414,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $473,500.00, the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Accommodations
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E‑Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I‑9 to confirm work authorization.
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