Data Engineer III - Advertising Technology

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.

Job Description: 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

Our Expedia Product & Technology division builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A unified, singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

The goal of Media Solutions(MeSo) Tech team is to spearhead advertising products and services across many Expedia brands including BEX, Hotels.com, Portfolio Brands (COMET & Hotwire.com), Expedia Partner Sites (EPS), and Vrbo. We help our advertisers identify travelers on EG sites, target specific traveler criteria, and then deliver the most relevant products.

As a Data Engineer III, you will propose, design and implement various initiatives. As a member of the team, you will work in alliance with global teams providing the technical expertise needed to overcome hard problems. We value rigor and innovative thinking in our development process and believe in the power of a motivated & agile development team.

In this role, you will: 

• Partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how own technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.

• Successfully conducts day-to-day work and solves complex issues in own specific technical engineering area.

• Shares domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.

• Serves as a guide to others by sharing and helping junior associates in their duties.

• Is recognized ability to fill in for peer engineering management as need arises.

• Advocates efforts to remove tech roadblocks for their team for long term success.

• Demonstrates positive impact and leadership outside immediate team scope.

• Possesses knowledge of features and facilities for integration, and communication among applications, databases and technology platforms to bring together different components and form a fully functional solution to a business problem.

• Has proven ability, experience and advanced knowledge of building and operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.

• Creatively tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.

• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices.

• Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns [NG] for large scale data processing in a scalable distributed environment.

• Advises on designing, performance/scalability tuning of batch and real time stream analytics and large data processing systems.

• Identifies areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions.

• Advocates for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).

• Advises on technical limitations of software design for products and provides alternative solutions.

• Facilitates collaboration with different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop effective solutions to issues.

• Strives for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking across boundaries and making recommendations about policies/ processes.

• Takes a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implements holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made.

• Recognizes outmoded methods of operation with current systems and design plans for disrupting them in a non-disruptive manner.

• Designs and leads advancements, innovations and changes in current solution designs relating to latest advancements in software engineering (specifically related to data engineering, cloud data platforms, data models, enterprise information management, business intelligence and data science).

• Reports on status of difficult or high-level projects to local tech leadership via written or oral means. Ensures documentation is complete.

• Justifies technology choices to both technical and non-technical observers.

• Shares technology learnings and best practices across engineering community in organization

Experience and qualifications:  

• 4+ years of experience developing data and software solutions, including ETLs, with a minimum of 2 years in a senior or lead role.

• 3+ years of experience in building data pipelines in the cloud

• Experience in Cloud computing platforms including AWS, EMR, or Kubernetes/Docker

• Experience in Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Splunk, Datadog.

• Experience in NoSQL and SQL Databases including MongoDB or Elastic Search.

• Experience with ML, deep learning, TensorFlow, Python, NLP

• Experience with aggregation strategy and performance optimization

• Experience building data pipelines incrementally and ensure test cases and logging are built for all scenario

• Agile methodologies and tools including Jira or Scrum practices.

• Experience in language like Java, Scala or python.

• Strong communication skills, experience communicating across various groups, and levels of leadership within a global organization

• Enthusiastically seek out solutions for data engineering problems

• Focused developer with a strong sense of ownership

• Ability to drive individual tasks to completion and production deployment

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.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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