• United States - Washington - Seattle

• Technology

• Full-Time Regular

• 09/12/2025

• ID # R-98045

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 flexible work model (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.

Introduction to Team

Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that drive loyalty and traveler satisfaction.

This Database Administrator III position is part of the Cerebro team, which manages all databases across Expedia Group. The team specializes in technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElastiCache, and Elasticsearch. In this role, you will serve as the dedicated Subject Matter Expert (SME) and primary point of contact for MongoDB in the U.S. time zone. You will oversee operational activities, drive engineering improvements, evaluate and recommend new solutions, collaborate with internal customers, and coordinate with offshore teams to ensure smooth delivery and support.

In this role, you will:

• Own MongoDB architecture, deployment, and operations across development, staging, and production environments.

• Proactively identify and resolve MongoDB performance, scalability, and availability challenges.

• Collaborate with application developers, DevOps, and SREs to integrate MongoDB into CI/CD pipelines.

• Implement and maintain automated scripts and infrastructure-as-code to provision and manage MongoDB in AWS.

• Drive initiatives to optimize cost, performance, and reliability of MongoDB workloads in the cloud.

• Lead or participate in MongoDB version upgrades, schema migrations, and platform evolution projects.

• Mentor junior team members on MongoDB best practices, troubleshooting, and cloud operations.

• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) and major incident reviews; share learnings with broader engineering teams.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation and runbooks for database operations, monitoring, and recovery.

• Partner with InfoSec and Compliance teams to enforce data security, audit logging, and access control policies.

• Stay current with new MongoDB features, AWS offerings, and industry trends.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator, with hands-on expertise in MongoDB.

• Deep knowledge of MongoDB, including replica sets, sharding, aggregation pipelines, performance tuning, and indexing strategies.

• Intermediate knowledge in sharding is required.

• Proficiency in at least one additional distributed database technology (e.g., Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch).

• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, and RDS or DocumentDB.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot query performance issues and optimize systems for high throughput and low latency.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of schema design, data modeling, and versioning practices for document-based databases.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) for managing database environments.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as CloudWatch or Datadog.

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The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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