Data Engineer II

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:

We are the Strategic Partnerships & Affiliates team in the Expedia Product & Technology division of Expedia Group. We are building the next-generation, scalable B2B partnership platform that will power hundreds of thousands of demand partners across the industry ranging from big businesses and Enterprises to small bloggers, micro influencers and creators in helping them recommend Expedia Group brands to their audiences and in the process grow their businesses. We aim to redefine the travel partnerships sector by building innovative partner tools and solutions that incorporates the new ways in which today’s travelers discover and shop travel products. To do this, we need technically passionate engineers with an entrepreneurial approach who love challenges, enjoy problem solving and take pride in delivering best-in-class products. You will work with a geo-distributed, cross functional team of 50+ engineers designing and developing solutions for complex problems with a wide-reaching business impact.
In this role, you will:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure data pipelines and batch/streaming data processing solutions that support analytics, reporting, and product use cases across multiple domains.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain data models, schemas, and interfaces (including APIs and data contracts) that ensure data is well-structured, discoverable, and usable by downstream systems and stakeholders.
• Implement high-quality, well-tested, and observable data engineering solutions using approved Expedia Group technologies, following established coding standards, system design (including low-level design), and data modeling practices.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and engineering partners to understand data requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and deliver high-impact datasets and services that enable data-driven decision making.
• Ensure end-to-end operational excellence of data services, including monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, cost optimization, and incident response for the data products and pipelines you own.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled data solutions that improve data quality, efficiency, or customer outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience
• Hands-on experience with data modeling, SQL, and at least one programming language commonly used for data engineering within Expedia Group, along with solid understanding of system design (including low-level design), API design, and data integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end components such as a data service, pipeline, or dataset, including delivery, quality, reliability, and ongoing maintenance within a broader data or product ecosystem.
• Experience working with modern data platforms, storage systems, and processing frameworks as documented for the SDE II Data Engineering role, and applying engineering best practices such as testing, code reviews, and version control.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and operating data pipelines and services at scale, including optimization for performance, reliability, and cost across large datasets and high-throughput environments.
• Proven track record implementing robust data models and contracts that support multiple consumers and use cases, and leading design discussions for system design, API interfaces, and data architectures within a team.
• Strong background in observability and operational excellence for data systems, including metrics, logging, alerting, runbook creation, and participation in on-call or incident response for data platforms.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve data processing, data quality, or personalization capabilities.
• Role-appropriate experience leveraging AI/ML in data engineering contexts, such as feature data pipelines for ML models, data preparation for training/serving, or using AI-assisted tools to improve development productivity and data reliability

Accommodation requests

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