This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.
Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.
Our Data & AI/ML Platform team powers Priceline’s most strategic capabilities — enabling every business unit, product team, and data practitioner to innovate faster with secure, scalable, and governed access to data, machine learning, and GenAI technologies. We build the platform foundations that make self-service development possible across the company, and we take pride in delivering solutions that are performant, reliable, and enterprise-ready.
If you thrive at the intersection of platform engineering, AI/ML enablement, and enterprise-scale distributed systems, this is the place to make an impact.
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.
This role leads the global platform engineering function that enables:
Self-service data engineering, MLOps, LLMOps, and GenAI workloads
Democratized access to trusted data and models
A unified platform experience that accelerates innovation across the company
You will define and execute the platform strategy that powers everything from real-time insights to production machine learning to next-generation agentic AI systems.
In this role, you will get to:
Platform Strategy & Architecture
Define and execute the technical strategy for Priceline’s Data, AI/ML & GenAI Platform — integrating data pipelines, analytics systems, ML tooling, model governance, and vector/RAG infrastructure into a unified self-service ecosystem.
Design platform capabilities that support modern development patterns (MLOps, LLMOps, Feature Stores, Experimentation, Data Quality, Observability, Security-by-Design, etc.).
Establish standards, patterns, and reusable components that accelerate delivery across engineering, product, analytics, and data science teams.
Build & Operate a Global Self-Service Platform
Lead globally distributed teams responsible for building, scaling, and operating platform services across data engineering, ML engineering, automation, and GenAI frameworks.
Enable BUs and product teams to ingest, process, build, deploy, and monitor data and AI/ML workloads independently and securely.
Deliver high-availability, low-latency platform capabilities leveraging technologies such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Spark, Dataproc, Composer, Vertex AI, Arize, Datastax Astra, Feature Stores, and model gateways.
Scale AI/ML & GenAI Adoption
Collaborate with ML Platform, Data Science, and Product teams to enable experimentation, model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring at scale.
Build platform-centric capabilities for LLM development, RAG, agentic workflows, prompt management, feature pipelines, and automation patterns.
Provide frameworks and guardrails that democratize access to AI/ML while reducing operational overhead and risk.
Operational Excellence & Developer Productivity
Drive engineering excellence through automation, standardization, CI/CD best practices, FinOps optimization, and robust SLO/SLA frameworks.
Proactively improve performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency of all platform components.
Foster a culture of metrics-driven execution, continuous improvement, and operational rigor.
Leadership & Collaboration
Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing global engineering teams; build strong engineering leadership pipelines.
Influence and partner with senior leaders across Data, FinTech, Marketing, Product, Security, and Enterprise Architecture.
Translate complex platform strategies into clear business impact and measurable outcomes.
Who you are
10+ years in software/data engineering with 4+ years leading platform or infrastructure-focused teams (data platforms, ML platforms, cloud platform engineering, etc.).
Deep expertise in large-scale data architecture, streaming systems, data modeling, and ML/GenAI platform technologies (GCP preferred).
Proven track record in building self-service platforms for data engineering, MLOps, LLMOps, or AI/ML workloads.
Hands-on experience with modern tools like BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub/Kafka, Spark/Dataproc, Composer, Vertex AI, Vector DBs, Feature Stores, and enterprise observability stacks.
Strategic thinker who can define multi-year platform roadmaps while delivering incremental value.
Exceptional collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments and can influence without authority.
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
#LI-Hybrid
Who we areOur 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!
