Data Engineer II

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 global hybrid work setup (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.

 Introduction to the team 

An established performer who consistently applies engineering principles to business contexts, leads small, well-defined projects and continues as a supporting player on complex projects, and actively identifies inefficiencies in existing systems. 

Expedia Group (EG) is revolutionizing travel through the power of technology. Across the globe, our brands make travel easier for millions of people who want to step out of their homes and into the world. We are a hardworking and focused team from all over the world – with 20,000 + employees, in over 30 countries. Together we seek new ideas, innovative ways of thinking, diverse backgrounds, and approaches. 

Our Mission as Expedia Group’s Customer Data Platform team is to build the travel industry's premier Customer Data Platform to delight the users' trips experiences through identification, personalization, AI, recommendations, and targeted marketing. We are looking for a Data Engineer with experience in building data products and applications, who can craft, develop, and own the next generation of scalable real-time customer data products and services. 

In this role, you will: 

• Design, build, and support scalable and durable data solutions that can enable self-service consumption use cases using cloud-based technologies in an agile manner 

• Work with a team of backend and data engineers to build large scale real-time data pipelines, microservices and APIs on the AWS platform 

• Write clean, efficient, and thoroughly tested code and be accountable for individual tasks and assignments and your team's overall productivity 

• Define, develop, and maintain artifacts like technical design or user documentation and look for continuous improvement in software and development process  

• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed multi-functional teams 

• Promote good development methodologies via code reviews, great software design, or tech talks 

 

Experience and qualifications:  

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience 

• 2+ years of experience in at least one major language (e.g., Java, Scala, Python) and SQL (any variant) 

• 2+ years of experience in distributed systems and have experience with different distributed processing frameworks both in batch and real-time e.g., Flink, Spark, etc 

• 2+ years of experienced in building and maintaining sophisticated ETL pipeline/data products in cloud architectures like AWS, Azure etc 

• Nice to have experience in Apache Kafka, Splunk, Datadog 

• Nice to have experience in NoSQL and SQL Databases including MongoDB or Elastic Search 

 

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $112,000.00 to $156,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $179,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

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.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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