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.
Senior Data Science EngineerCloud‑Native Analytics Pipelines (GCP)Service Time: Typically 7+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or applied data science rolesRole OverviewWe are seeking a Senior Data Science Engineer to design, build, and operate production‑grade analytics pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. This role spans the full lifecycle—from orchestration and transformation to analytics, ML, and infrastructure—using modern CI/CD and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.Key Responsibilities
- Build and operate Apache Airflow DAGs on Cloud Composer, including dependencies, scheduling, and testing.
- Develop batch and streaming pipelines using Apache Beam on Cloud Dataflow.
- Design, optimize, and maintain BigQuery datasets, SQL, partitions, clustering, and cost‑efficient query patterns.
- Develop and operationalize BigQuery ML (BQML) models within analytics workflows.
- Manage environment‑aware configuration using YAML across DEV, CERT, and PROD.
- Provision and manage GCP infrastructure using Terraform (GCS, BigQuery, IAM, CMEK).
- Own and extend GitHub Actions pipelines for build, test, and multi‑environment deployment.
- Apply GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, testing, and code review.
- Lead or support schema evolution and BigQuery DDL migration efforts.
- Python (type hints, clean modules, conventions)
- Apache Airflow
- BigQuery (SQL, DDL, performance, cost optimization)
- BigQuery ML (training, evaluation, inference)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCS, IAM, Composer, Dataflow, CMEK)
- Apache Beam
- Terraform (IaC modules, lifecycle management)
- GitHub Actions (CI/CD, artifacts, multi‑env deployment)
- YAML‑based configuration management
- GitHub Copilot / AI‑assisted development
- Artifact registries (e.g., Nexus) and deployment orchestration tooling
- CMEK‑focused security and encryption patterns
- Large‑scale BigQuery schema evolution and migration experience
- Lakehouse architectures on GCP
- Cross‑repo or multi‑team platform engineering experience
- Integrating BQML models into automated Airflow pipelines
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.
#LI-Hybrid#LI-GR1Skills Required
- Typically 7+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or applied data science roles
- Strong experience with Python, Apache Airflow, BigQuery, and GCP
- Proficient in Apache Beam, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and YAML
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.”
