Senior Data Engineer - AdTech/Media Solutions

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 global hybrid work setup (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 Team

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

The Senior Data Engineer is part of the MeSo ADAM (Audience, Data, Attribution & Measurement) team which sits within our Product & Technology division. This team is responsible for improving Ad Relevancy for our customers and increasing/providing insights for our advertisers through the use of data. In this role, you will be a technical leader, guiding the design and development of scalable solutions while driving innovation around our Travel Media Network.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and actively participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including the design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise applications projects to tackle sophisticated business problems

• Deconstruct large, sophisticated problems into manageable and achievable breakthroughs driving streamlined execution by the team

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers and more junior engineers, helping them overcome obstacles and have growth opportunities

• Collaborate with EG leaders with vision to architect and build robust applications and thoughtfully choose relevant technologies to evolve EG travel platform

• Maintain, monitor and improve our solutions and systems with a focus on service excellence; apply industry standards and innovative technologies to improve efficiency, quality, and system performance

• Technologies we use: Java, Scala, AWS Cloud Services, GraphQL, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Cassandra, MongoDB, DataDog, Splunk

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience

• 6+ years of experience in developing data and software solutions, including ETLs using cloud architectures

• Proficiency with technologies like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Splunk, Datadog, NoSQL and SQL databases

• Experience and exposure to ML / AI technologies

• Proven leadership in executing vaguely defined, complex projects.

• Preferred: Experience and exposure to advertising technology

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $161,000.00 to $225,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $257,500.00, 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.

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