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.

Introduction to the team

Expedia Group has a mission to become the world’s travel platform. As part of that effort, Expedia Group’s Data organization is building a unified platform for all Expedia brands to capture, enrich, and leverage data for AI, data science, and programmatic applications.

As a Software Development Engineer III, you will join the Marketing Data Engineering team within the Expedia Group Marketing organization. This team focuses on building a next-gen analytics platform – a consolidated suite of products designed to facilitate experimentation analysis, campaign performance measurement, incentive forecasting, and scenario planning.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and support scalable, reliable and durable data solutions to support self-service consumption, leveraging cloud-based technologies
• Support Expedia Group’s product and business teams’ specific data needs on a global scale
• Collaborate closely with teams across engineering, product, and business functions
• You will be encouraged to propose improvements to designs and processes; actively participate as a key team member in all agile ceremonies, code and design reviews
• Apply 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
• Recommend and apply architectural patterns or GenAI capabilities to improve system design and innovation
• Enhance service reliability through observability, automation, and continuous operational improvements
• Participate in on-call support of team’s services through PagerDuty rotation

Minimum qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering with a Bachelor's degree in a technical field (or equivalent experience); or 3+ years with a Master's.
• Experience building data pipelines or data products in a production environment, ideally in cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language relevant to data engineering (e.g., Python, Java, or Scala), and familiar with data processing tools such as Apache Spark, Kafka, or Airflow.
• Experienced in batch & streaming processing and modern data architectures, distributed systems, and data access patterns.
• Experienced with Advanced SQL and working with both traditional RDBMS and distributed data storage systems.
• Experience building front-end and/or backend services, with a strong understanding of APIs as products.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with product partners to clarify and refine functional requirements.

Preferred qualifications:

• Languages: Java, Scala, Python
• Frameworks: Apache Spark, Spring, FastAPI
• Database: SQL, NoSQL, and Distributed storage (e.g., Iceberg, Hive, Parquet, Avro)
• Protocols: RESTful/Open API web services, GraphQL and gRPC
• Infrastructure: EC2 (compute), S3 (storage), Kubernetes and Docker
• Generative AI: Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI

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.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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