Data Platform Engineer II — Remote/Hybrid

TripAdvisor LLC; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Remote-friendly collaboration

Flexible schedule

Donation matching

Tuition assistance

Lifestyle benefit

Travel perks

Employee assistance program

Health benefits

Referral program

Job summary

Tripadvisor Group is seeking a Data Engineer II to join our Data Platform team in Oxford. You will design, build, and sustain data infrastructure powering our travel platform, writing production-grade Java and Python, and delivering scalable end-to-end data pipelines across Snowflake, BigQuery, and Hive.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and CRM teams, owning the full data-pipeline lifecycle and ensuring data integrity, governance, and performance at scale.

Qualifications

• 4–5+ years of data engineering or software development experience in a commercial setting.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in both Java and Python for production systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex ETL/ELT processes from concept to production.
• Proficiency in SQL and data exploration across large, complex datasets.
• Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, BigQuery, Snowflake) and terabyte-scale data.
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Professional experience building REST services and working with event queues.
• Familiarity with Linux and cloud infrastructure design on AWS.
• Systems performance and tuning with scalable architecture mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT data pipelines across Snowflake, BigQuery, Hive, and other platforms.
• Develop scalable, reusable data models and curated data sets for analytics, data science, CRM, ML, and other data consumers.
• Own the full lifecycle of data pipelines: define SLAs, implement performance metrics, monitoring, and anomaly detection.
• Ensure data integrity, validation, documentation, and governance.
• Write production Java and Python code across the platform stack for data ingestion and services.
• Build and maintain streaming and batch processing systems (Flink, Spark, Kafka) for real-time and analytical workloads.
• Operate cloud infrastructure on AWS, with Gradle, Linux, and related tooling.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Data Science teams to define specs and deliver high-quality solutions.

Skills

Java

Python

SQL

Hadoop

Hive

BigQuery

Snowflake

Spark

Flink

Kafka

AWS

Gradle

Linux

Airflow

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Flink

Spark

Kafka

AWS

Gradle

Linux

Airflow

Job description

Tripadvisor Group is seeking a Data Engineer II to join our Data Platform team in Oxford. You will design, build, and sustain data infrastructure powering our travel platform, writing production-grade Java and Python, and delivering scalable end-to-end data pipelines across Snowflake, BigQuery, and Hive.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, Data Science, and CRM teams, owning the full data-pipeline lifecycle and ensuring data integrity, governance, and performance at scale.