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.

Data Engineer III

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!

This role will act as the senior technical lead on the team supporting the continuous improvement of our data pipelines and systems, to empower our marketing team to deliver best in class marketing campaigns.

If you are someone with a growth mindset and love solving complex and challenging problems, come join us on this exciting journey.

What you’ll do:

• 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

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent related professional experience

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

• 4+ years’ experience with with programming languages such as PHP, Python or Java stack

• 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 ingestion, data modeling, unit testing, performance optimization, SQL etc

• Demonstrable history creating on and leveraging AWS

• 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

• Experience with AWS ecosystem or other big data technologies such as EC2, S3, Redshift, Batch, AppFlow

• AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cassandra, SQL

• Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Spark, other big data technologies

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

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The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, 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.

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