Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and Operations

Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Infrastructure and OperationsOur Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you're in the right place.Why this job's a big deal:As the Distinguished Enterprise Architect for Infrastructure and Operations, you'll set the strategy and standards that power reliability, speed, and safety across Priceline's platforms, networks, and run-time environments. This role raises the architectural bar for Priceline's Infrastructure and Operations—building reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective foundations so product teams can ship quickly without chaos.

You'll 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).In this role you will get to:Define and evolve the target-state Infrastructure and Operations architecture aligned to Priceline's long-term business and technology objectives, with a pragmatic phased roadmap and measurable interim milestones.Design and govern global, cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE, service mesh, data and messaging backbones, edge/CDN, identity/IAM, network architecture) that are resilient, scalable, secure, and cost-optimized—grounded in explicit trade-offs.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—partner 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.Use business criticality classification to drive resiliency, capacity, and performance engineering requirements, with automated IaC policies for topology/redundancy, data protection, observability configuration, SLOs, change management requirements, and IAM policies.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.Who you are:Strategic thinker and clear communicator who can influence executives, peers, and engineers.Deep experience across cloud infrastructure and operations—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) and Kafka.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.Unquestionable integrity and ethics are essential.There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant.The salary range for this position is $210,000- $260,000K USD.