Senior Data Engineer
Expedia
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Senior Data Engineer, Media Solutions
Introduction to the team
Expedia Group Media Solutions is dedicated to build creative media partnerships for travel advertisers enabling them to use Expedia's network of leading travel brands and global sites. We have revolutionized the way brands reach and connect with online travel consumers, emerging as a leader in online advertising among travel and e-commerce brands. With a growing product portfolio offering a multitude of advertising and sponsorship opportunities, our Media Solutions team at Expedia has created an expansive marketing platform for advertising partners to reach the 144+ million worldwide monthly unique visitors that visit Expedia Group sites.
The Data Platform group at Media Solutions is building the data foundations that will fuel the power of data and provide insights for all our traveler and advertiser uses cases. We build and operate systems that centralize all of Expedia Group’s advertising data, making it easy for our systems and users, transform and access data for analytics, data science, finance and advertiser experiences. As a technical lead data engineer on the team, you will build systems across foundational processing and data storage systems through scalable pipelines, to frameworks and tools that make data available to teams and systems. We understand and embody the 'One Team' philosophy and always strive to model the Expedia Group core values and principles. We find creative ways to implement learning from ideas like Agile, Lean, Continuous Delivery and the Scientific Method in many aspects of software design, development, delivery and operations. We are committed to a learning and growth mindset.
In this role, you will:
Lead, design and develop scalable distributed data pipelines using cluster-compute frameworks
Develop scalable system designs that solve business problems
Apply best practices, algorithms, data engineering patterns and data structures to produce maintainable code
Demonstrate structured approach to development (schema, design, develop, test, instrument, deploy and monitor) of systems
Act as a lead on data engineering best practices, design, code, operational reviews and be a team-player
Mentor software and data engineers on the team
Experience and qualifications:
Bachelors or Master’s or equivalent professional technical work experience
8+ years of work experience in Big Data / distributed compute projects in production
Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Scala, Python or Java
Experience with Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Presto)
Experience with SQL and Data Modeling
Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, CloudFormation
Experience with workflow management engines such as Airflow, AWS Step Functions or equivalent
Experience with cloud or on-premises Big Data/MPP analytics platform
Experience with AWS technologies like S3, EC2, EMR or equivalent
Experienced working in a lean and agile environment
Developed and maintained data pipelines in a production environment
Experience with advertising is a plus but not required
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.
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