Principal Software Developer
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Job Summary
Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader backed by one of the worlds 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.
Principal Software Engineer (Spring Boot Microservices AWS/GCP Agentic AI)
Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead architectural strategy platform modernization and cloud transformation across highimpact systems. This role requires deep experience building distributed systems modernizing monolithic applications and driving adoption of nextgen technologiesincluding agentic AI autonomous workflows and intelligent service orchestration.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Leadership
- Define and drive architecture for scalable resilient cloud-native platforms.
- Lead modernization efforts transitioning monolithic applications into modular or microservices-based architectures.
- Establish engineering best practices across microservices APIs data design and cloud systems.
- Mentor senior engineers influence technical direction and guide crossteam architectural decisions.
Design & Engineering
- Architect and build backend systems using Java Spring Boot Spring Cloud and microservices patterns.
- Design robust REST APIs and SOAP/Web Services ensuring security consistency and governance.
- Build data layers using Hibernate/JPA integrating across SQL and NoSQL ecosystems.
- Lead eventdriven architecture using Pub/Sub Kafka or equivalent platforms.
- Integrate agentic AI patterns (autonomous agents reasoning pipelines workflow orchestration) into existing or new services where beneficial.
Cloud & DevOps
- Drive cloud architecture and deployments on AWS or GCP including containerization orchestration and managed services.
- Define CI/CD observability and DevOps standards for reliability and operational excellence.
- Improve performance scalability and resilience through intelligent automation and AIdriven optimizations.
Strategic Collaboration
- Partner with Product Architecture Security and senior stakeholders to align technology decisions with longterm business strategy.
- Provide engineering leadership for transformation initiatives platform modernization and AI adoption roadmaps.
- Resolve complex technical challenges and foster innovation across teams.
Required Skills
- 10 years of backend engineering experience with strong architectural leadership.
- Deep expertise in Java Spring Boot Spring Cloud and microservices design.
- Proven experience modernizing or decomposing monolithic applications.
- Strong cloud experience with AWS and/or GCP cloud-native patterns and distributed systems.
- Expertise in REST APIs web services and microservices governance.
- Advanced experience with Hibernate/JPA SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB/Cassandra).
- Strong understanding of Pub/Sub Kafka event-driven systems and asynchronous design.
- Hands-on experience with Docker Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines and infra automation.
- Strong system design performance engineering and deep debugging skills.
- Experience with distributed caching (Redis/Hazelcast).
- Familiarity with observability (Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry).
- Experience with IaC (Terraform CloudFormation).
- Excellent communication influence and technical leadership.
Nice to Have
- Agentic AI experience: building or integrating LLM-based agents autonomous workflows or AI-augmented decisioning systems.
- Participation in architecture review boards or technology councils.
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.
#LI-Hybrid#LI-NG1Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Sabre Corporation is a travel technology company based in Southlake, Texas. It is the largest Global Distribution Systems provider for air bookings in North America. American Airlines founded the company in 1960, and it was spun off in 2000.
