Data Engineer III

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 team
 As a member of the Service Data team, you will develop data solutions to create exceptional Traveler experiences, empower VA and Human Agents, and support Partner business operations by informing behavior, optimizing processes, and enhancing capabilities.
An established performer who consistently applies software an data engineering principles to business contexts, proactively identifies inefficiencies in existing systems, leads small, well-defined projects and supports complex projects.
 

In this role, you will: 

• Collaborates with team members to co-develop and solve problems.
• Proactively reaches out to meet peers across environment and collaborate to solve problems.
• Takes advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.
• Seeks knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.
• Understands the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.
• Understand the importance of building and operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.
• Develop and tests standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Applies software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.
• Applies knowledge of database design to solve data requirements.
• Applies concepts of object oriented design, distributed computing, performance/scalability tuning, advanced data structures and algorithms to batch and real- time stream analytics and data processing.
• Helps coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues.
• Thinks broadly and understands how, why and when policies and processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization.
• Executes tasks and/or provides data to support the implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology.
• Applies formal training methods to the current workload. Feels comfortable challenging authority/the status quo.
• Maintains awareness of advancements, innovations and changes in technologies (specifically relating to data engineering, cloud data platforms, data models, enterprise information management, business intelligence and data science).

 

Experience and qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or in a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience
• Worked in a data engineering team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.).
• Built and maintained at least one data engineering pipeline/data product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Has strength in a programming language relevant to data (e.g. Java, Spark, Python), moderate familiarity in other applicable languages.
• Demonstrates actual successful hands-on experience designing and delivering projects using at least 1 data processing pattern (e.g. stream vs batch) and general familiarity of the others.
• Has familiarity with traditional RDBMS system vs. distributed systems and is aware of modern data access patterns.
• Tests and monitors their code and understands how to test and monitor tools.

Accommodation requests

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