We believe that we are better together, & at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique identities, abilities, & experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel & together find the good out there.

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AWS) with experience working with high-traffic, production deployments, to Amazon Web Services to join our world-class engineering team, responsible for powering the most critical features of our globally known web site & mobile applications, operating across 43 markets & 22 languages, servicing our 490 million monthly active users.

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (AWS) you will be expected to work with application & operations engineers across the B2C Supply Engineering team & internal platform teams in developing or integrating necessary tooling & monitoring to ensure that the teams can maintain target service level objectives. You will also play an active role in on-going efforts to migrate existing on-premise services into AWS, driving cloud-first best practices.

What Youll Do:

• Facilitate Development: Reduce friction & improve reliability in development, testing, & deployment to production.
• Empower Operational Excellence: Ensure adequate monitoring & observability to proactively identify & diagnose system degradations & potential problems.
• Shape our Future:  Help design & then execute on our technical roadmap.  Work with other dedicated, experienced engineers, to migrate legacy monoliths & on-premises micro-services to cloud-first systems.
• Write code: Ship code to production.  Write code that will power production services handling requests from millions of users each day, while serving as a foundation for future cloud-first migrations within the organization.
• Practice Accountability: Participate in periodic on-call duties & ensure that incident root causes are identified, debugged & resolved to prevent recurrence.

Who You Are:

• 12+ years of experience in commercial software development including leadership & operations experience
• Strong Java background, including developing & debugging highly-concurrent, high-throughput systems
• Strong understanding of AWS technologies (e.g. EKS, ECS, CDK, RDS, Dynamo)
• Experience troubleshooting & resolving performance issues at every layer of the stack
• Experience with production Cloud deployments & integrated CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Kubernetes & Microservices-based architecture
• Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, & Object Oriented Software Design.
• Familiarity with Hive / Hadoop / Spark / Snowflake a plus
• Past experience with datacenter-to-cloud migrations a plus
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs & GraphQL are a plus
• Experience with Terraform & Atlantis a plus
• Experience with Apache Solr and/or ElasticSearch a plus
• Experience with Kafka, ActiveMQ a plus
• Experience with Nodejs, ES6, & front-end technologies like React are a plus
• Experience with Istio a plus.

What youll get:

Tripadvisor provides a unique, global work environment that captures the speed, innovation & excitement of a startup, at a thriving, growing & well-established industry brand. At Tripadvisor, you will be part of a dynamic, fun, & energetic team where you can immediately make meaningful contributions.

• Highly competitive base salary
• Annual bonus program
• Stock grant
• Generous Paid Time Off Policy
• 401k Matching Program
• Excellent health & dental options
• Paid Parental Leave
• Annual Wellness & Fitness Benefit
• Annual personal travel reimbursement
• Life & Accident Insurance coverage
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program
• + much more!

We strive to create an accessible & inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at greenhouse@tripadvisor.com.

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