Data Engineer II

Are you excited by the opportunity to pioneer the future of travel? Do you want to redefine online travel experiences with outstanding content that will delight travelers around the world? Expedia Group’s Content Platform team might be the right opportunity for you!

Content Platform is driven to provide the best and most engaging content to our customers, making them well-informed and eager to travel. The team owns products and services that handle large volumes of structured and unstructured data, in the form of text and media, converting it to content that helps travelers pick the best property, both hotels and vacation rentals!

Finally (but just as important), this is a team filled with people who love technology and thrive in challenging situations. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and driven. We believe that requires a high level of initiative and understanding that close-knit teams do a much better job of bringing products to life. We highly value teamwork and place a premium on work-life balance. Our culture provides a safe environment to spark creativity and encourage continuous learning and growth.

What you’ll do:

• You will collaborate with team members to co-develop and solve problems.

• Proactively reaches out to meet peers across environment and collaborate to solve problems.

• Takes advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.

• Seeks knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.

• Understands the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.

• Understand the importance of building and operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets.

• Develops and tests standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.

• Applies software design principles, data structures and/or design patterns and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.

• Applies knowledge of database design to solve data requirements.

• Applies concepts of object oriented design, distributed computing, performance/scalability tuning, advanced data structures and algorithms to batch and real- time stream analytics and data processing.

• Helps coordinate stakeholder input and collaboration efforts when developing solutions to issues.

• Thinks broadly and understands how, why and when policies and processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization.

• Executes tasks and/or provides data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology.

• Applies formal training methods to current workload. Feels comfortable challenging authority/the status quo.

• Maintains awareness of advancements, innovations and changes in technologies (specifically relating to data engineering, cloud data platforms, data models, enterprise information management, business intelligence and data science).

• Reports clearly on current work status.

• Asks challenging questions when empowered to do so.

• Communicates verbally and/or written on technology and design considerations and choices within team.

Who you are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.

• Worked in a data engineering team environment of at least 5 engineers (agile, version control, etc.).

• Built and maintained at least one data engineering pipeline/data product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure.

• Has strength in a programming language relevant to data (e.g. Java, Spark, Python), moderate familiarity in other applicable languages.

• Demonstrates actual successful hands-on experience designing and delivering projects using at least 1 data processing pattern (e.g. stream vs batch) and general familiarity of the others.

• Has familiarity with traditional RDBMS system vs. distributed systems and is aware of modern data access patterns.

• Understands how projects fit together within their team.

• Able to understands moderately complex systems.

• Tests and monitors their own code.

• Understands how to test and monitor tools.

• Debugs applications.

• Understands how teams goals fit a business need. Development/language skills (Java/Python/Scala) • Architecture • Testing, monitoring, alerting • Business acumen/domain knowledge • Data access patterns • Streaming technology • Data validation

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $112,000.00 to $156,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $179,000.00, 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.

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.

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.