Job Description
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 global hybrid work setup (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.
Job Summary:
As a Software Development Engineer II, you will be contributing the development and adoption of reliability, scalability and performance of the world’s largest online travel platform at scale within the Reliability Engineering organization.
Position Overview:
We’re looking for a skilled developer to join our Reliability Engineering organization as a Chaos Engineer. In this role, you’ll be responsible for identifying system weaknesses and helping build resilient, fault-tolerant architectures across Expedia.
You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enhance fault injection capabilities, design and execute chaos experiments, analyze results, and drive solutions to improve service stability. We’re seeking a self-starter who is highly organized, communicative, and passionate about quality, reliability, and ensuring a seamless experience for travelers.
What you'll do:
• Design, implement, and execute chaos experiments to test and improve the resilience of distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain chaos engineering frameworks, tools, and automation, ensuring scalability and ease of use across teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify areas for fault injection and embed chaos engineering practices into development workflows.
• Analyse and interpret experiment results, providing actionable insights to enhance system stability and reliability.
• Proactively monitor application health and address issues through effective troubleshooting, logging, and resolution of technical blockers.
• Contribute to technical design, functional analysis, and implementation of mid-to-large-scale reliability projects, following best coding practices.
• Promote best development methodologies through code reviews, software design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Stay up to date with industry trends in chaos engineering, cloud architectures, and distributed systems to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
Who you are:
Competencies:
• Strong Object-Oriented design knowledge and development experience with 1 or more of Java, Go or Python
• 3+ years’ software development experience working in a team environment
• Strong observability engineering experience and exposure to Prometheus, Grafana or SaaS-based monitoring platforms (DataDog preferred)
• Experience with chaos engineering tools (e.g. AWS FIS, Germlin, Chaos Mesh, Chaos Monkey etc.)
• Experience with deploying onto containerisation and orchestration platforms (such as Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (AWS preferred)
• Strong communication skills (able to explain concepts to non-technical people as well as engineering peers)
Experience and Qualification:
Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience. Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, ****** orientation, national origin, disability or age.
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.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2026 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2026 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 202+030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, ****** orientation, national origin, disability or age.
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 global hybrid work setup (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.
Job Summary:
As a Software Development Engineer II, you will be contributing the development and adoption of reliability, scalability and performance of the world’s largest online travel platform at scale within the Reliability Engineering organization.
Position Overview:
We’re looking for a skilled developer to join our Reliability Engineering organization as a Chaos Engineer. In this role, you’ll be responsible for identifying system weaknesses and helping build resilient, fault-tolerant architectures across Expedia.
You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to enhance fault injection capabilities, design and execute chaos experiments, analyze results, and drive solutions to improve service stability. We’re seeking a self-starter who is highly organized, communicative, and passionate about quality, reliability, and ensuring a seamless experience for travelers.
What you'll do:
• Design, implement, and execute chaos experiments to test and improve the resilience of distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain chaos engineering frameworks, tools, and automation, ensuring scalability and ease of use across teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify areas for fault injection and embed chaos engineering practices into development workflows.
• Analyse and interpret experiment results, providing actionable insights to enhance system stability and reliability.
• Proactively monitor application health and address issues through effective troubleshooting, logging, and resolution of technical blockers.
• Contribute to technical design, functional analysis, and implementation of mid-to-large-scale reliability projects, following best coding practices.
• Promote best development methodologies through code reviews, software design discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Stay up to date with industry trends in chaos engineering, cloud architectures, and distributed systems to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
Who you are:
Competencies:
• Strong Object-Oriented design knowledge and development experience with 1 or more of Java, Go or Python
• 3+ years’ software development experience working in a team environment
• Strong observability engineering experience and exposure to Prometheus, Grafana or SaaS-based monitoring platforms (DataDog preferred)
• Experience with chaos engineering tools (e.g. AWS FIS, Germlin, Chaos Mesh, Chaos Monkey etc.)
• Experience with deploying onto containerisation and orchestration platforms (such as Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (AWS preferred)
• Strong communication skills (able to explain concepts to non-technical people as well as engineering peers)
Experience and Qualification:
Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience. Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, ****** orientation, national origin, disability or age.
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.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2026 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2026 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 202+030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, ****** orientation, national origin, disability or age.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Software Development Engineer II, Chaos Engineering position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in London offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
