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Senior Data Engineer
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United States - Illinois - Chicago
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Technology
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Full-Time Regular
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03/06/2026
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ID # R-103321
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.
Senior Data Engineer
In this role, you will:
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 including availability, monitoring, and resiliency. Work with our business partners to flesh out and deliver on requirements in an agile manner. 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. Lead and design through ambiguous, complex systems. Lead a project to provide key advertising performance reporting measurements by combining and curating billions of records of user and clickstream data. In doing so, this role helps establish standardized ways of consuming such high-volume datasets and helps create an execution plan that spans three additional engineers working in parallel. This position is not eligible for relocation benefits or assistance. May work remotely or from home 2 days/week; must live within commuting distance of Expedia office.
Experience and qualifications:
Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computing, or related field and 6 years of progressive, postbaccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a software engineer-related occupation.
Position requires:
1. Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and Apache Flink;
2. Splunk, Datadog;
3. NoSQL and SQL databases;
4. Java;
5. Scala;
6. Apache Airflow;
7. Data Visualization Tool such as Tableau or Looker;
8. Github Actions – CI/CD Tools.
The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $161,000 to $225,500/year.
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.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
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The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $171,500.00 to $240,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $274,500.00, 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.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
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