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 flexible work model (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.

Data Engineer III

Introduction to the team

Travel Partnerships and Advertising helps partners, including hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) and more, deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences. We drive growth for our partners and the Expedia Group marketplace through competitive supply, our leading advertising and travel media network and affiliate solutions. 

Are you a data engineer looking to join a leading technology company? Are you passionate about data and everything it powers? Are you ready to help people travel, go from anywhere to somewhere, by all means possible? If this sounds like you, keep reading!

The Expedia for Business Digital Experience Marketing team are looking for a Data Engineer III to join the team! If you are someone with a growth mindset and love solving complex and challenging problems, come join us on this exciting journey.

In this role, you will:

• Develop various facets of data capture, data processing, storage and distribution

• Understand and apply AWS standard methodologies and products (compute, storage, databases)

• Translate marketing concepts/requirements into functional specifications

• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code

• Propose new ways of doing things and contribute to the system architecture

• Manage ETL data to and from Expedia Group entities to third party solutions

• Create and maintain functional utilities (SPAs) that provide point solutions to scale our marketing operations

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

• Communicate and document solutions and design decisions

• Work with business collaborators, analytics, and senior leadership to define and scope solutions that the marketing team can leverage to efficiently scale out our marketing operations

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent related professional experience

• 8+ years of development experience, particularly in using marketing acquisition technologies to deliver automation of multiple channels and drive operational efficiencies

• 4+ years’ in designing and implementing data pipelines using modern data engineering approaches and tools: Spark, PySpark, Java, Docker, cloud-native DWH (Snowflake, Redshift), Kafka/Confluence, etc.Manage ETL data to and from Expedia Group entities to third party solutions.

• Experience building data pipelines from multiple sources including APIs, CSV, event streams, NoSQL, etc. using distributed data frameworks.

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

• Experience with Infrastructure, Scripting, and Architecture is very beneficial.

• Hands-on with Cloud computing technology like AWS, Google Cloud, etc.

• Experience with CI/CD processes and platforms.

• Experience in batch and/or stream processing (using Spark) and streaming systems/queues such as Kafka or SQS.

• Daily practice of agile methods including use of sprints, backlog, user stories

• Understand, Analyze, design, develop, as well as implement RESTful services and APIs.

• Experience operationalizing ML/AI models using AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Databricks MLOps frameworks or others in production environments.

• End-to-end ownership of data analytics projects from requirements gathering through architecture, design, and deployment.

• Experience in Generative AI/LLMs, preferably experienced in delivering and productionizing.

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The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500 to $192,500. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000, 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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