This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.
The Data & AI/ML Platform team powers Priceline’s most strategic initiatives by providing secure, scalable, and governed access to data, machine learning, and GenAI. We build the core platforms that enable self-service development and deliver reliable, enterprise-ready solutions. If you enjoy working at the intersection of platform engineering and AI/ML at scale, this team offers a high-impact environment.
Why this job’s a big deal:
As Priceline scales personalization, AI-driven optimization, and intelligent automation, a modern platform for data and AI/ML is mission-critical. You’ll help build the foundational systems that enable self-service data engineering, MLOps/LLMOps, and GenAI workloads, while democratizing access to trusted data and models. Your work will directly accelerate innovation across every product and business team at Priceline.
In this role you will get to:
AI/ML Deployment & GitOps Automation
Contribute to GitOps deployment workflows with Argo that ensure AI/ML services are correctly onboarded and configured for GitOps delivery across GKE, Dataproc, Vertex AI, Dataflow, and other platform-managed compute environments.
Package AI/ML services into Docker images and manage lifecycle/versioning in Google Artifact Registry.
Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for builds, tests, image scans, and deployments.
Infra as Code & Cloud Platform Engineering
Develop and manage Terraform modules for Data & AI/ML platform resources such as Composer, Vertex AI, Dataproc, BigQuery, GCS, and other Data/AI/ML services.
Ensure infra repeatability, reliability, and alignment with platform and infosec standards.
ML Pipeline Orchestration & Model Lifecycle
Build, maintain, and troubleshoot AI/ML pipelines, batch jobs, and custom training workflows through Vertex AI.
Use Cloud Composer (Airflow) to orchestrate multi-stage ML workflows spanning data prep, training, evaluation, and deployment.
Integrate LLMOps patterns through Gemini Enterprise, LiteLLM or similar model gateways.
Kubernetes & Istio-Based Service Operations
Operate AI/ML powered microservices on GKE involving Istio gateways and service mesh patterns.
Collaborate with platform teams on security tooling such as NexusIQ, StackRox, and Wiz.
Monitoring, Observability & Model Quality
Use Arize (or similar tools) for model drift/quality monitoring, embeddings monitoring, and LLM evaluation patterns.
Implement logging, alerting, and SLOs for ML workloads and pipelines with Splunk, New Relic, Pagerduty etc..
Assist with incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term platform improvements.
DevOps Support for Internal Web Framework
Provide operational guidance and deployment automation for internal Python-based frameworks used in AI/ML services.
Improve developer productivity through standardized templates, CI/CD patterns, and tool
Who you are:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
4–6 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or MLOps roles.
Strong experience with GCP (Vertex AI, GKE, Dataflow, Dataproc, Composer, BigQuery, etc.) or other major cloud providers (Azure/AWS).
Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Vertex AI, Docker and image-based deployment workflows.
High proficiency with Python or similar scripting language, especially for automating ML/infra tasks.
Strong knowledge of Terraform and IaC patterns at scale.
Experience deploying apps via GitOps using Argo.
Proven ability to support AI/ML models in production: monitoring, pipelines, debugging, retraining loops.
Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.
The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with LLMOps toolchains (RAG pipelines, vector stores, prompt/version management, agent frameworks).
Good understanding of infosec and RBAC best practices, and security posture management.
Exposure to SRE best practices and error budgets for ML systems.
#LI-hybrid
Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.
Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.
We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.
Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.
If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!
Flexible work at PricelinePriceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.
To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, we believe our team should reflect the broad range of customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work.
Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world. We’d love for you to join us and help shape what makes our team extraordinary.
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What We Do
At Priceline, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], we believe every trip is a big deal to our customers. Whether it’s a much-needed getaway, wedding, reunion, graduation, or rooting on a favorite team—those are the moments that nobody should miss out on.
Our mission? Be the best travel dealmakers in the world. We provide our customers with smart and easy ways to access the very best deals available on hotel rooms, flights, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises, so they can be there for the moments that matter the most to them.
We do that by welcoming people who are at the top of their game, who want to learn and grow with others and who take their work seriously (but not themselves). We’re building a diverse and uniquely talented team to make sure our customers can be there for all those {big deal} moments. Come join us!
