Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Please note that this role is only available in Chicago, IL. Candidates should currently reside in the Chicago area or be prepared to travel for onsite interviews and work from the Chicago office on a regular basis.

Introduction to the Team

Expedia Group Advertising helps Expedia Group and its partners connect with travelers and understand the impact of advertising across Expedia Group brands and partner channels. Within Emerging Business Technology, the Measurement, Attribution & Data Platform organization builds the capabilities that turn advertising interactions and outcomes into reliable measurements, attribution, and insights.

As a Software Development Engineer II, you will contribute to the backend services and data platforms that support this work—from ingesting and processing advertising and conversion data to powering measurement and reporting experiences. The systems you build help advertisers and internal teams understand campaign performance and make informed decisions. You’ll work with engineers, product partners, and analytics stakeholders on distributed systems where data quality, timeliness, scale, and operational reliability matter.

We’re looking for an engineer who takes ownership, delivers thoughtfully, and cares about building maintainable systems that work reliably in production. You’ll have opportunities to contribute across the development lifecycle, improve existing platforms, and help evolve the way Expedia Group measures advertising outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Lead software development engineering teams in delivering reliable, scalable products and services that address complex business and customer needs.
• Set technical direction across a domain or multiple services, guiding system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, and implementation decisions.
• Build a high-performing engineering organization through coaching, talent development, effective planning, and clear accountability for technical outcomes.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing strong practices for reliability, quality, security, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Partner across product, design, data, and other technical disciplines to translate strategy into measurable delivery outcomes and make data-informed engineering decisions.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, while developing familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, and workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level; Technical Degree Preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience owning technical outcomes across a domain or multiple related services, with accountability for architecture, delivery, reliability, and operational performance.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering fundamentals, system design, low-level design, API design, data modeling, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction, lead through ambiguity, and develop engineers and engineering leaders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading complex, distributed systems and engineering organizations operating at significant scale.
• Track record of improving engineering effectiveness through automation, observability, reliability practices, and data-driven operational decision-making.
• Experience establishing architecture direction across multiple services or a broad technical domain while balancing customer value, technical quality, and delivery speed.
• Experience applying AI/ML concepts to production software, including evaluating, integrating, and safely operating AI/ML-enabled solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI-driven development tools or workflows to improve engineering productivity, product quality, or operational outcomes.

We follow a flexible work model, which requires employees to be in the office at least three days a week.

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $171,500.00 to $240,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $274,500.00, which is 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.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia 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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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.