Expedia

Expedia is the global leader in travel. From the practical matters of booking flights, cars, hotels, packages, local activities, or vacation rentals to the realization of dreams and bucket lists, we cover the entire breadth of this deep and varied relationship. We team up with our partners to provide outstanding offers to our customers. Some of our partners are huge brands, and some are individuals with a studio apartment to rent. Our customers are diverse, and we seek to deliver value and a great experience. Our technical challenges are endlessly complex and yet meaningful and exciting.

The Data Engineer role will be part of the Data Products team in the Expedia Group Clickstream organization. The Data Products team will enrich event streams in real-time to provide programmatic access to clean, fast, and authoritative data sources for the entire company. We will build robust enriched data products at rest (periodic facts, aggregates) and refresh them intra-day to enable self-service analytics.

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
• 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, phenomenal software design, brown bags or tech talks
• Provide support to both internal and external team members as needed
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and efficient processes

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related experience required
• Experience building data pipelines with data from event streams (Kafka preferably), NoSQL, APIs etc. using distributed data frameworks
• Batch processing using Spark and Stream processing (KStreams, Spark Streaming, Flink, etc.) experience required
• Understanding and experience in Kafka, Kubernetes, Spring, AWS, Hive, Docker a huge plus
• Professional development experience in Scala/Java required
• Experience with different aspects of data systems including database design, data modeling, performance optimization, SQL etc.
• Experience in Clickstream domain (tracking libraries, server side logging, canonical event model, data & self-service analytics etc.) 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

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.