Director of Engineering - Distribution
Leads engineering for Distribution pillar, owning technical strategy, architecture, reliability, and team growth for systems like affiliates, APIs, and sites. Requires 10+ years engineering with 4+ years managing teams and strong SRE/operational expertise.
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy and architecture for Distribution’s many surfaces: Affiliates, Content, OTA/reseller APIs, FH Sites, and connectivity.
- Design pragmatic, loosely-coupled systems that protect the core monolith while enabling Distribution services to iterate and scale safely.
- Define SLOs/SLIs, runbooks and on-call practices for Distribution services; lead incident response and continuous improvement.
- Build observability and dashboards that give visibility into partner health, adoption and integration performance.
- Partner tightly with Product and Commercial to translate GTM priorities into technical roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Build and grow high-performance, multi-disciplinary engineering teams by adopting engineering best practices and responsibly leveraging AI to boost the team’s collective performance.
- Recruit, manage and coach managers, and set a consistently high bar for both the team and yourself.
Requirements
- 10+ years engineering experience with ≥4 years leading managers or broad, cross-functional engineering teams.
- Strong operational instincts: SRE/observability, incident leadership, and continuous reliability improvements.
- Great people leader: hires well, develops managers, sets priorities and creates accountability.
- Strong experience designing, building and shaping high-scale distributed systems, with a demonstrated ability to drive growth by leveraging technology effectively (platforms, integrations, and customer-facing services).
- Managing velocity while building for scale — proven skill balancing rapid delivery and GTM urgency with sound architecture, long-term maintainability and technical debt management.
- Own system health: accountable for SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident response and continuous reliability improvements; strong operational instincts and experience with SRE practices.
- Experience modernizing legacy platforms — migrating or evolving monoliths into more scalable, maintainable architectures while minimizing business disruption.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in travel, marketplaces, eCommerce, or integrations with OTAs and large external partner sites.
Compensation
Salary Range: $186,880-$280,319, plus 25% bonus potential
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