Data Engineer II, Marketing Data Engineering

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.

Data Engineer II, Marketing Data Engineering

Are you a data engineer passionate about building scalable data solutions to drive customer growth for Expedia Group? Do you enjoy solving complex data problems and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful outcomes? If so, we invite you to join the Marketing Data Engineering team as our next Data Engineer II.

Our Metasearch team focuses on building and maintaining high-quality data integrations with key partners like Google, Trivago, and TripAdvisor. We empower teams in Machine Learning Science and Channel Management with timely, accurate datasets that drive automated, data-informed decision-making at scale.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade batch and streaming data pipelines that support business-critical use cases in marketing, advertising, and experimentation.
• Implement scalable data processing solutions in public or hybrid cloud environments, applying sound software engineering principles and modern data patterns.
• Collaborate with product managers, analysts, and data scientists to translate business requirements into technical solutions, ensuring data quality, reliability, and observability.
• Write clean, modular, and testable code using languages such as Python, Scala, or Java, with attention to maintainability and performance.
• Contribute to team-owned data products that serve downstream consumers across analytics, reporting, and machine learning platforms.
• Debug and resolve data quality issues, bottlenecks, and performance constraints in complex systems.
• Proactively identify areas for technical and process improvements, contributing to the team’s agile development practices and continuous delivery culture.
• Participate in peer reviews, knowledge-sharing, and team retrospectives to support ongoing team growth and collaboration.
  
  

Who You Are

• You have 2+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering with a Bachelor's degree in a technical field (or equivalent experience); or 0-2 years with a Master's.
• You have built and maintained at least one data pipeline or data product in a production environment, ideally in cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• You are proficient 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.
• You understand batch vs. streaming processing and are familiar with modern data architectures, distributed systems, and data access patterns.
• You’re experienced with SQL and working with both traditional RDBMS and distributed data storage systems.
• You value testing, monitoring, and alerting as core parts of building reliable systems.
• You’re comfortable working in an agile, collaborative team environment, and can clearly communicate trade-offs and design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You bring business acumen, curiosity, and a drive to solve real-world data challenges that deliver measurable value.
  
  

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.

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