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.

Role Summary
A high performing individual contributor who mentors  junior engineers. applies new data engineering principles to improve existing systems, and leads complex, well-defined projects.

Data Engineer III

Are you fascinated by data and the thought of building pipelines that can process massive amounts of data at scale for one of the largest online travel platforms? 

Come and join the mission to accelerate data and AI capabilities across Expedia Group. We are looking for a Data Engineer III to join our Clickstream data engineering team which is responsible for building and maintaining data and software products which are the lifeblood of Intelligence, Business Analytics and customer/partner facing ML at EG.

What you'll do:

• 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 

• Support Expedia Group’s product and business teams’ specific data needs on a global scale 

• Close partnership with internal partners from engineering, product, and business 

• Write clean, efficient, and thoroughly tested code 

• Be part of an agile team that is continuously learning and improving 

• Develop scalable and highly performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency) 

• Work with our business partners to flesh out and deliver on requirements in an agile manner 

• Evolve development standards and practices 

• Take architectural ownership for various critical components and systems 

• Proactive problem-solving at the organization level 

• Communicate and document solutions and design decisions 

• Build bridges between technical teams to enable valuable collaborations 

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

• Provide support to both internal and external team members where necessary 

• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and efficient processes 

• Demonstrate a passionate for solving complex problems in the face of constraint

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 4+ years of experience building data pipelines from multiple sources including APIs, event streams, NoSQL, etc. using distributed data frameworks 

• Experience in batch and/or stream processing required 

• Professional development experience in Java or Scala required 

• Experience with different aspects of data systems including database design, data modeling, performance optimization, SQL etc

• Knowledge about and passion for MPP Distributed Systems Architecture including Hadoop-ecosystem technologies, Apache Spark, Distributed FS, Event Queues etc

• Understanding and experience in Kafka, Kubernetes, Spring, AWS, Hive, Docker a huge plus

• Strong communication skills (able to explain concepts to non-technical audiences as well as peers) 

• Self-starter who is highly organized, communicative, quick learner, and team-oriented 

• Passionate about the big data landscape and the evolving technology space which allows us to gain insight for ever larger amounts of data

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