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 building reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective foundations for product teams to ship quickly without encountering chaos.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the target-state Infrastructure and Operations architecture aligned with Priceline's long-term business and technology objectives.
• Unify platform engineering, SRE, networking, and multi-region cloud infrastructure into paved roads and guardrails that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, strengthen observability, reduce change-failure rate and MTTR, enable safe, scalable AI adoption, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Lead platform engineering strategy, establish paved roads/golden paths, an internal developer platform (IDP), reusable reference architectures, and self-service automation that shorten idea-to-production cycles.
• Institutionalize SRE fundamentals and advance Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.
• 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) across platforms and pipelines.
• 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

• Strategic thinker and clear communicator with influence over executives, peers, and engineers.
• 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 with 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, capable of modeling and optimizing cost/reliability/latency trade-offs at scale.
• Bias for clarity and simplicity, reducing complexity and enabling teams to move faster and smarter.
• An analytical problem-framer who reduces ambiguity into clear, actionable components.

Qualifications

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and clear communication.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and operations.
• Hands-on engineering background.
• Fluency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Automation skills (e.g., Python/Go).
• GitOps/CI/CD expertise.
• Service mesh knowledge.
• Production observability skills.
• Security-first mindset.
• Practical knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, secrets management, vulnerability management, and privacy/compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, SOX, GDPR/CCPA).
• FinOps awareness.
• Bias for clarity and simplicity.
• An analytical problem-framer.

Benefits

Priceline offers a competitive base salary, an annual bonus, and equity grants. The salary range for this position is $210,000-$260,000K USD. Flexible work arrangements include a hybrid model with two days in-office per week, allowing employees to choose between remote or in-office work.

Pay

$210,000 - $260,000K USD

Schedule

Hybrid work model: 2 days in-office per week

Company Overview

We are Priceline, a leader in online travel. Our mission is to make travel affordable and accessible to everyone. We are part of Booking Holdings, Inc., a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak, and OpenTable. Join us and help shape what makes our team extraordinary!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Priceline is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We embrace and celebrate the unique perspectives of our employees, ensuring they feel free to bring their individual strengths and passions to work.