Network Engineer II

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 know that 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. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

In this role, you will

• Design, implement, and operate network solutions that support Expedia Group’s platforms and services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across data centers and cloud environments.

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot routing, switching, load balancing, and connectivity services, contributing to low-level design, API integration points, and data modeling for network-related services and tooling.

• Collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams to deliver network capabilities for new and existing products, applying infrastructure-as-code and automation practices where supported by team standards.

• Monitor network performance, identify and resolve incidents and problems within your owned services, and contribute to operational runbooks, documentation, and continuous improvement of availability and latency.

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.

• Work across multiple domains and environments (on-premise, cloud, hybrid) to support fungible, reusable network patterns and participate in an on-call rotation in line with team practices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.

• Experience deploying and supporting production networks in team environments.

• Experience operating network services in public or hybrid cloud infrastructures.

• Hands-on configuration of enterprise or service provider–grade networking hardware.

• Basic to intermediate knowledge of routing, switching, and core protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, VLANs, VPNs, firewalls, DNS, load balancers).

• Understanding of physical and virtual networking.

• Experience configuring and operating cloud IaaS networking (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Familiarity with network automation, APIs, and telemetry models (e.g., SNMP, NetFlow, Netconf/Restconf, gRPC).

• Basic proficiency in scripting or programming for automation.

• Performs day-to-day network operations for LAN/WAN environments.

• Able to troubleshoot routine issues, follow standard procedures, and escalate when needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical degree and relevant certifications preferred (e.g., CCNA/CCNP, AWS Associate).

• Experience supporting or contributing to network or infrastructure solutions in cloud or hybrid environments.

• Demonstrates understanding of system and technology integration and the role of APIs, tools, and processes in integrated solutions.

• Assists with issue and incident investigations, including gathering, documenting, and analyzing relevant data.

• Experience supporting or participating in testing, validation, and quality inspections for infrastructure or network services.

• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and coordinate input across teams when addressing technical issues.

• Understands organizational policies and standardization practices, including when variations are required.

• Supports implementation of solutions that align people, process, and technology.

• Maintains curiosity about emerging technologies, trends, and best practices, and actively expands knowledge of company infrastructure and user requirements.

Accommodation requests 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.

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