Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and Operations
About the role
The Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Infrastructure and Operations plays a pivotal role in setting the strategic direction for Priceline's infrastructure and operations. This role focuses on ensuring that the company's platforms, networks, and run-time environments are reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective.
Responsibilities
Set the strategy and standards for infrastructure and operations that support Priceline's business and technology objectives.
Design and govern global, cloud-native platforms, including Kubernetes/GKE, service mesh, data and messaging backbones, edge/CDN, identity/IAM, and network architecture.
Lead platform engineering strategy, establish paved roads/golden paths, an internal developer platform (IDP), reusable reference architectures, and self-service automation to shorten idea-to-production cycles.
Institutionalize SRE fundamentals and advance Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices.
Embed security and privacy by design, partnering with Security/Risk to implement Zero Trust, secrets and key management, vulnerability & patch orchestration, data protection, and regulatory controls (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA).
Evaluate emerging technologies, patterns, and vendors to shape strategic roadmaps, leading build/buy/partner analyses, proofs of concept, and TCO/ROI assessments to de-risk decisions.
Coach principal and staff engineers, uplevel engineering practices, and cultivate a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
Deep experience across cloud infrastructure and operations, including Kubernetes/container platforms, platform engineering/IDP, networks, storage, observability, incident management, DR/BCP, and modern change management. Hands-on engineering background with fluency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation (e.g., Python/Go), GitOps/CI/CD, service mesh, and production observability. Cloud-native experience—ideally GCP (e.g., GKE, Cloud Service Mesh, VPC, CloudSQL/AlloyDB/Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, GCE, GCS, Vertex AI, Looker). Security-first mindset with practical knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, and privacy/compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA). FinOps-aware—able to model and optimize cost/reliability/latency trade-offs at scale. Bias for clarity and simplicity—reducing complexity and enabling teams to move faster and smarter. Analytical problem-framer who reduces ambiguity into clear, actionable components. Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.
Qualifications
Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers. Deep experience across cloud infrastructure and operations, hands-on engineering background, security-first mindset, and FinOps awareness. Bias for clarity and simplicity, analytical problem-framer, and illustrated history of living the Priceline values.
Skills
Strategic thinking, clear communication, influencing skills, deep experience in cloud infrastructure and operations, hands-on engineering background, security-first mindset, FinOps awareness, bias for clarity and simplicity, analytical problem-framer, illustrated history of living the Priceline values.
Benefits
Priceline offers a flexible hybrid work model, including two days in the office per week, allowing employees to choose between remote or in-office work. The company is committed to fostering an inclusive environment and is an equal opportunity employer.
Pay
The salary range for this position is $210,000-$260,000K USD. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.
Schedule
Priceline follows 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, employees can choose to be remote or in the office.