Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
Sabre is the global leader in innovative technology that powers the travel industry. We are always looking for bright and driven technologists who thrive on solving complex problems at scale. If you are passionate about building highly scalable data pipelines, working with global teams, and applying modern DataOps practices, then Sabre is the right place for you.
The Revenue Optimization Team is expanding as we modernize our data platforms and move seamlessly to the cloud to build the next generation of data and analytics solutions. We are seeking a Software Engineer with hands on expertise in distributed data processing, orchestration, and data architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Pipeline Architecture
Partner with Product Management to translate business requirements into scalable, cloud-native data solutions.
Design, develop, and deliver high-performance batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Spark and Apache Airflow.
Contribute to the modernization of data tech stacks, adopting cloud-native patterns and managed GCP services (e.g., Cloud Composer, Dataproc).
Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, reliability, and cost of cloud-hosted data workloads.
Architecture & Platform Leadership
Collaborate with Architects to define and evolve the technical data roadmap.
Follow the best practices for data architecture, including stateless processing, asynchronous ingestion, and event-driven data streaming.
Adopt new technologies that improve data processing performance, reliability, and developer productivity.
DataOps, CI/CD & Operations
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workflows on GCP.
Contribute to automation across build, test, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning.
Work closely with platform and SRE teams to ensure strong observability, monitoring, and alerting for data pipelines.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues in distributed data systems.
Contribute to cost-aware engineering, balancing performance, reliability, and cloud spend.
Required Skills
Data Engineering Core
Must have:
2+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software or data applications.
Hands-on experience in distributed data processing using Apache Spark.
Hands-on experience orchestrating complex DAGs using Apache Airflow.
Strong proficiency in Python for data manipulation, scripting, and pipeline development.
Good to have:
Data Modeling & Architecture: Experience with relational and dimensional data modeling techniques (e.g., Star Schema, Data Vault) for data warehouses.
Modern Data Stack Tools: Knowledge in data transformation and modeling tools like dbt (data build tool), and an understanding of Lakehouse architectures (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or Apache Hudi).
Big Data File Formats: Familiarity with optimized, columnar storage formats such as Parquet, Avro, or ORC.
Data Governance & Quality: Experience implementing automated data quality testing, tracking data lineage, and ensuring data security and compliance.
Bonus: Experience building cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs with Java and Spring Boot is a plus.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experience with GCP services, such as: BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Firestore, Pub/Sub, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, and Cloud Monitoring & Logging.
Understanding of cloud-native networking, security, and IAM concepts.
Data Platform & DevOps
Knowledge in containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and DataOps automation.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting for distributed data systems.
Engineering Excellence
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
Willingness to learn new technologies and innovate when standard solutions are insufficient.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field (Master’s Degree preferred).
2+ years of professional experience building and operating enterprise-grade systems.
We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.
Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.
Skills Required
- 2+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software or data applications
- Hands-on experience with Apache Spark (distributed data processing)
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow (orchestrating complex DAGs)
- Strong proficiency in Python for data manipulation and pipeline development
- Experience with GCP services (BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Firestore, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Monitoring & Logging)
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DataOps automation for data workflows
- Knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred)
- Experience with data modeling, modern data stack tools (dbt), columnar file formats (Parquet, Avro, ORC), and Lakehouse technologies (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi)
- Experience building cloud-native microservices and RESTful APIs with Java and Spring Boot
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sabre Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Sabre Corporation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is expansive, with five weeks of PTO from day one, eight paid holidays, floating holidays, and a companywide year‑end break. Paid volunteer time further broadens available leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 12 weeks fully paid for birth or adoption, complemented by generous bereavement leave up to 15 paid days. Disability coverage and dependent eligibility to age 26 reinforce family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a strong company match underpins long‑term savings. This foundation strengthens overall financial security alongside core benefits.
Sabre Corporation Insights
What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry. Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry. We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few. Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology. We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
