Principal Software Development Engineer, GenAI Platform

Overview

Principal Software Development Engineer for Expedia Group’s Generative AI Platform team, building foundational GenAI platform capabilities used across the company.

What you'll do

• Design and build reusable GenAI platform services, pipelines, and APIs for multiple teams and use cases.
• Develop and operate production-grade AI agents using agentic patterns (e.g., LangGraph, multi-agent).
• Set technical direction for agent evaluation, operations, security, and governance.
• Architect model-routing and LLM gateway platforms balancing reliability, latency, quality, and inference cost.
• Evaluate model and platform approaches such as open-weight deployment and fine-tuning.
• Mentor engineers and establish practices that improve reliability, productivity, security, and agility.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Recent, hands-on experience designing and developing production-grade Generative AI or AI-agent systems.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one additional production language (Java or Kotlin).
• Experience designing cloud-native distributed systems, microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and low-latency architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, database platforms, caching, and architecture patterns.
• Ability to set technical direction and influence globally distributed teams.

Details

• Based in Gurgaon and requires regular in-person collaboration.