Job DescriptionAs a Principal Engineer - Web Performance you will play a critical role in improving the speed, reliability, and stability of traveler facing web experiences across Marriott's digital ecosystem, including homepage, search, and reservation flows.
In this role, you will work across multiple product teams to establish performance standards, proactively identify performance regressions, and improve how teams measure and understand the real world impact of their changes. You will partner closely with engineers, product teams, and platform stakeholders to ensure performance is considered early and continuously throughout the development lifecycle.
In addition to performance analysis and observability, you will contribute to the evolution of internal performance reporting applications built with Next.js and PostgreSQL, helping teams self serve historical trends, release comparisons, and cohort based performance insights. These tools are treated as internal products, with roadmaps, UX considerations, and a focus on long term maintainability.
This role emphasizes technical leadership and influence without direct authority, enabling teams to build fast, resilient experiences while continuously raising the bar on performance engineering practices.
Key Responsibilities Performance Monitoring, Analysis, and Automation
- Proactively identify web performance regressions, trends, and anomalies using data from observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., RUM, synthetic monitoring, application telemetry).
- Analyze performance data across releases, pages, and user cohorts to surface actionable insights for engineering teams.
- Collaborate with teams to define and refine performance budgets, thresholds, and guardrails that help prevent regressions.
- Design and implement automated alerts, reports, and regression detection mechanisms to reduce time to diagnosis and manual investigation.
- Help teams understand performance trade offs and incorporate performance considerations into day to day engineering decisions.
- Contribute to evolving performance standards and best practices in collaboration with platform and product partners.
Internal Performance Tooling (Next.js / PostgreSQL)
- Contribute to the design and development of internal performance reporting applications built with Next.js and PostgreSQL.
- Design APIs and data access patterns that support performant, flexible access to performance metrics and historical data.
- Perform data modeling and query optimization in PostgreSQL to support scalable historical trend analysis and comparisons.
- Build and refine front end data visualizations and user experiences that make performance data intuitive and actionable.
- Treat internal tools as products by contributing to roadmaps, usability improvements, and long term technical health.
- Support use cases such as before/after release comparisons, page level analysis, and cohort based performance views.
Collaboration, Influence, and Enablement
- Work closely with product engineering teams to embed performance thinking into feature development and delivery.
- Partner with platform, infrastructure, and analytics teams as needed to understand system behavior and data sources.
- Influence engineering teams without direct ownership by providing guidance, tooling, and clear technical recommendations.
- Help teams learn how to reason about performance, diagnose issues, and evaluate the impact of changes.
- Communicate technical findings clearly to a range of audiences, including engineers, product partners, and leadership when appropriate.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with strong full stack development expertise.
- Deep experience building and maintaining modern web applications using technologies such as JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js.
- Strong SQL skills with hands on experience in PostgreSQL, including data modeling and query optimization.
- Experience designing and consuming APIs to support data driven applications.
- Proven ability to work across multiple teams and codebases, influencing outcomes without direct authority.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, including code quality, system design, and maintainability.
- Experience building or contributing to internal platforms or developer facing tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with web performance metrics such as Core Web Vitals, and an understanding of synthetic vs. real user monitoring data.
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and alerting tools used in large scale web platforms.
- Experience presenting technical data through dashboards, visualizations, slide decks, or written narratives.
- Exposure to cloud native architectures, CDNs, or distributed systems.
- Interest in or experience with AI assisted performance analysis, anomaly detection, or automated insights.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts in a clear, pragmatic way.
At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.
About UsAll locations offer 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others. Click here to learn more.
Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, and paid parental leave.
Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.
Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected. Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.
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