Data Engineer I

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.

Expedia Group Advertising is dedicated to building 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 Advertising 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.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you. We are looking for a Data Engineer who will drive the innovation and scale of the advertising data platform for Expedia Group Media Solutions. As a member of this team, you will work on building and maintaining realtime and batch data pipelines that maintain customer facing datasets powering Advertiser Facing Reporting.

We value rigor and innovative thinking in our development process and believe in the power of a motivated & agile development team. We are looking for strong engineers who can navigate distributed systems, solve challenging problems, and jump into new projects. Your work will touch systems at scale that reach people all around the world, while having a major impact on our business by helping travelers find meaningful destinations.

Role Summary
A supporting-level team member who is well-versed in basic principles of software engineering and work as a supporting player on complex projects and engages in discussion of new topics and feel empowered to challenge the status quo.

Experience
0-2 years

Education

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience. Technical degree preferred.
• Built at least 3 software projects by themselves.

Functional/ Technical Skills
• Has moderate strength in at least one language like Scala, Spark, or SQL/Python.
• Understands data patterns and storage.
• Understands software development theory and design.
• Understands how functions created fit into team projects.
• Understands lower complexity systems.
• Has a basic understanding of testing and monitoring
• Debugs code.
• Basic understanding of how team`s goals fit a business need.
 

Role Expectations
• Collaborates with team members to co-develop and solve problems.
• Proactively reaches out to meet peers across environment and collaborates to solve problems.
• Takes advantage of opportunities to build new technical expertise in a specific engineering area.
• Seeks knowledge from subject matter experts when needed.
• Understands the importance of system and technology integration and the basic features and facilities involved in the integration process.
• Develops and tests standard software applications and related programs and procedures to ensure they meet design requirements.
• Apply software design principles, data structures, algorithms and computer science fundamentals to write code that is clean, maintainable, optimized, modular with good naming conventions.
• Learns to think broadly and understand how, why and when policies/processes are standardized and when they differ across the organization.
• Completes tasks and/or provides data to support implementation of holistic solutions that forge linkages between structure, people, process and technology.
• Applies formal training methods to current workload. Feels comfortable challenging authority/the status quo.
• Reports clearly on current work status.
• Asks challenging questions when empowered to do so.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $87,500.00 to $122,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $140,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

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.

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.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.