Network Engineer I

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.

Network Engineer I
Are you passionate about large-scale networks and modern infrastructure? Ready to kick-start your career in travel tech keeping business-critical systems connected and secure? Join Expedia Group’s Infrastructure & Enterprise Engineering team, which designs, builds and runs the global networks and core platforms that power our brands worldwide. We provide secure, reliable connectivity across data centers, cloud, offices and remote users, partnering closely with security and platform teams to keep travel moving.
As a Network Engineer I, you’ll join an experienced group of engineers to support the design, deployment and operation of our enterprise and cloud networks. You’ll take on well-defined tasks within larger projects, help troubleshoot production issues, and learn how we design for scale, reliability and security while being encouraged to ask questions, propose ideas, and challenge the status quo.
What You’ll Do

• Support the day‑to‑day operation of our enterprise and data center networks following established runbooks.
• Assist with implementing and validating network changes and new designs in production.
• Perform periodic LODO tasks such as software upgrades, resource patching, failover testing and network health audits.
• Monitoring intake channels and responding or escalated as required.
• Troubleshoot basic connectivity issues, gathering data and escalating when needed.
• Help maintain network documentation, diagrams and runbooks.
• Continuously learn our infrastructure, tools and standards and stay curious about new network technologies.

Who You Are
If you meet the Must criteria and are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every “Helpful” box.
Must :

• 0–2 years in network engineering, infrastructure or a related technical role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Certifications such as Arista ACE Level 1, Cisco CCNA, AWS foundational or other networking/cloud certs.
• Experience contributing to a network implementation or deployment into production (project, internship or role).
• Exposure to public or hybrid cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Ability to configure enterprise‑grade network hardware with guidance.
• Basic skills in routing and switching (e.g., OSPF, BGP, VLANs, subnets, ACLs, NAT).
• Understanding of physical vs. virtual networking and how they interoperate.
• Familiarity with at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Go, PowerShell).
• Comfortable following standard processes and procedures and collaborating with others to resolve issues.

Helpful :

• Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or similar.
• Experience with cloud networking (VPCs, security groups, gateways, load balancers).
• Exposure to network observability tools and applications (e.g., NetFlow/IPFIX, SNMP, Datadog, Logic Monitor, Catchpoint).
• Exposure to network automation tools (e.g., APIs, Terraform, Ansible).
• Demonstrated interest in emerging networking and cloud trends and growing your expertise over time.

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.

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