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:
Are you a data engineer looking to work on petabyte‑scale data for one of the world’s largest online travel platforms? Join Expedia Group’s Clickstream Data Engineering team to build cloud‑native pipelines and high‑quality behavioural data products that power experimentation, analytics, and ML across EG. You’ll partner closely with product, analytics, and ML teams to unlock new insights and more personalised travel experiences, while championing reliability, observability, and data quality in everything you build.
In this role you will:

• Develop and test complex data applications and related programs to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Apply knowledge of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms to write clean, maintainable, and optimized code.
• Design, build, and operate highly available, distributed systems for data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.
• Mentor junior engineers and proactively team up with peers to understand cross-dependencies and solve shared problems.
• Recognize and address areas of inefficiency in code or systems and recommend advancements in data technologies, cloud platforms, and data models.

Experience and Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent related professional experience.
• 5+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of experience with a Master's degree.
• Experience working on large volumes of data and building and maintaining more than one data pipeline in production environments, including bug fixing, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with data-centric programming languages (e.g., Java, Scala, Python) and at least one cloud technology (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a technical field.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems for large-scale data processing (batch and real-time).
• Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Spark Streaming, Flink, Kinesis) and familiarity with data modeling and schema design patterns.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers, leading code reviews, and leading complex, well-defined projects.
• Demonstrated ability to apply concepts of performance/scalability tuning and cost optimisation to data solutions

Accommodation requests

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