Sobre este puesto de Principal Software Engineer en Sabre
Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
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1. Role Overview
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our global engineering team, where innovation knows no borders. Our team builds and operates next-generation airline retailing and fulfilment platforms that enable airlines and travel partners to modernise offer, order, payment, and servicing capabilities at scale. Through close collaboration with product, architecture, operations, and customer teams, we deliver secure, resilient, and highly scalable solutions that directly support business growth and customer success.
With an inclusive culture and flexible work environment, we work together with boldness, curiosity, and commitment so we can all win together.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for shaping architecture, influencing engineering strategy, and driving delivery of complex business-critical initiatives. You will work across multiple teams to solve challenging technology problems, establish engineering best practices, and help accelerate Sabre's transformation through modern platforms, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
2. What THIS ROLE Will Do
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale software solutions that support strategic business objectives and customer needs.
- Drive technical direction across multiple teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across platforms and services.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to translate complex requirements into innovative and sustainable technology solutions.
- Champion modern engineering practices, automation, observability, and AI-driven efficiencies to improve development velocity and system quality.
- Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership that elevates engineering standards, accelerates innovation, and strengthens organisational capability.
3. What THIS ROLE Requires
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems and enterprise platforms.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, microservices, API design, event-driven systems, and modern software engineering practices.
- Proven ability to influence architecture decisions, lead complex technical initiatives, and drive alignment across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills with the ability to balance technical excellence and business outcomes.
4. Why Join Us
- Shape the Future of Travel Technology: Build innovative solutions that power airline retailing, order management, payments, and digital transformation for leading global airlines.
- Technical Leadership at Scale: Influence architecture and technology strategy across critical platforms that serve customers around the world.
- Solve Meaningful Challenges: Work on complex, high-impact engineering problems involving scalability, resilience, automation, AI, and cloud technologies.
- Continuous Growth & Learning: Access world-class learning resources, technical communities, mentorship opportunities, certifications, and exposure to emerging technologies.
- Collaborative & Inclusive Culture: Join a team that values innovation, ownership, diversity of thought, and continuous improvement while providing flexibility and work-life balance.
This role offers the opportunity to make a lasting technical impact, influence strategic platform decisions, and help define the future of Sabre's technology landscape.
We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.
Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.
