Senior Data Engineer - Real-Time Pipelines & Systems

Expedia; España; On-site; EUR 56,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness benefits

Travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group in Madrid is seeking a Data Engineer III to apply advanced data engineering to improve systems, lead complex projects, and mentor junior engineers. You will develop highly available data processing solutions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data products.

You will design batch and real-time pipelines, build distributed data platforms, and work with Java, Python, Scala, and Spark, applying data modeling, testing, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree, 3+ years with a master's degree, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience developing software in at least three programming languages.
• Experience building and maintaining more than one production data pipeline or data product.
• Proficiency in at least 3 data-relevant programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Scala, Spark).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines.
• Build and operate highly available, distributed systems for data extraction, ingestion, processing, movement, storage, and access.
• Apply software design principles and distributed computing concepts to write maintainable code.
• Work with large-scale datasets and complex data access patterns.
• Develop software using Java, Python, Scala, and Spark.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues within SLAs.

Skills

Java

Python

Scala

Spark

Cloud technologies

Data pipelines

Big data

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Hadoop

Kafka

Airflow

Job description

Expedia Group in Madrid is seeking a Data Engineer III to apply advanced data engineering to improve systems, lead complex projects, and mentor junior engineers. You will develop highly available data processing solutions and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data products.

You will design batch and real-time pipelines, build distributed data platforms, and work with Java, Python, Scala, and Spark, applying data modeling, testing, monitoring, and performance tuning.