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Travelport is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and operate AI-centered, cloud-native systems for flight search, pricing, and trip planning. The role focuses on scalable backend services, data pipelines, AI-facing platforms, and operational reliability.\n\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and maintain backend services and data pipelines spanning streaming ingestion, batch and stream processing, and API layers\nDevelop and evolve data models, schemas, and storage patterns that support a growing analytical data lake\nBuild and maintain platforms that expose data, tools, and services to AI-driven applications and agents\nOperate, monitor, and troubleshoot workloads running on a Kubernetes-based cloud platform\nDevelop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliable, automated build, test, deployment, and release processes\nCollaborate closely with data science, platform, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, production-ready solutions\nImplement automated testing, observability, and operational tooling, including metrics, logging, dashboards, and alerts\nParticipate in code reviews, technical design discussions, architecture decisions, and agile planning activities\nDrive continuous improvements in system reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency\n\nSkills\nProven experience in professional software development, including designing, building, and operating production-grade backend systems\nStrong proficiency in Java, Scala, and/or Python, with the ability to work effectively across multiple languages, frameworks, and runtime environments\nExperience building and operating distributed data processing solutions using technologies such as Apache Spark and Kafka\nExperience with cloud-native infrastructure and container orchestration platforms, including Kubernetes, Helm, and AWS\nFamiliarity with Infrastructure-as-Code practices and tools such as Terraform and Terragrunt\nSolid understanding of CI/CD principles, automated testing, and software delivery best practices\nUnderstanding of observability practices, including monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting for production systems\nStrong collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills, with experience working in agile, code review-driven engineering environments\nExperience with modern data lake and lakehouse technologies (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Nessie, or similar catalog systems)\nExperience managing schema evolution and data governance within analytical data platforms\nExperience building or integrating AI-facing interfaces and agentic AI solutions (e.g., MCP, RAG, Spring AI, LangChain, LangGraph, LLM function calling)\nExperience with AI/ML lifecycle management and MLOps practices\nExperience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives\n\nBenefits\nRemote work\n\nCompany Overview\nTravelport provides business services, as well as transaction processing solutions and data to companies operating in the travel. 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