Senior Data Engineer

tripadvisor; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Remote-friendly collaboration

Tuition assistance

Health benefits

Travel perks

Donations matching

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Tripadvisor Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Platform group. You will design, build, and sustain data infrastructure powering the world’s trusted travel platform, pairing software engineering with deep data expertise to deliver end-to-end scalable solutions.

You’ll collaborate across Product, Analytics, Data Science, CRM, Marketing, Finance, and ML teams. You’ll work on data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data modeling, and governance, with a focus on reliability,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering or software development experience in a commercial setting.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of data pipelines from design to production.
• Define scalable data models and curated data sets for analytics and data science.
• Build robust ETL/ELT pipelines across Snowflake, BigQuery, and other platforms.
• Develop streaming and batch systems for real-time and analytical workloads.
• Lead engineering standards, reviews, and governance practices.
• Collaborate across Product, Analytics, Data Science, and Marketing teams.

Skills

8+ years of data engineering

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Python

Java

SQL

BigQuery

Snowflake

Spark

Flink

Kafka

REST services

AWS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Hadoop/Hive

Flink

Spark

Kafka

Python

Java

Job description

About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork.

Our Data Platform team is the engineering backbone of Tripadvisor’s data ecosystem. Formed from the core fundamentals of our Data Engineering and Software Engineering (Data Platform) groups, this unified team combines deep data pipeline expertise with robust platform engineering capabilities.

We are responsible for providing the software and infrastructure that enable Tripadvisor to better understand visitor preferences and drive GenAI, Analytical, and DSML initiatives at petabyte scale. We build the frameworks, infrastructure, tooling, data modeling, and best practices that ensure consistent, well-governed, high-quality data products everywhere; and we directly own a deliberate set of business-critical, cross-cutting data products.

Our work spans:

• Streaming and batch data platforms that unlock data across Tripadvisor
• ETL pipelines and data models serving terabytes and growing datasets in Snowflake, BigQuery, and Hive
• Orchestration, scheduling, and ETL generation tools to support cloud migrations and petabyte-scale operations
• Tracking instrumentation, information architecture, and data governance tooling for business-critical analytics
• Self-service and agentic analytics capabilities — governed, natural-language access to trustworthy data

The Role

Tripadvisor is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our fast-moving Data Platform group. In this role, you will design, build, and sustain the data infrastructure that powers the world’s most trusted travel platform. You'll pair strong software engineering fundamentals with deep data engineering expertise, set technical direction, architecting reliable pipelines, and delivering end-to-end solutions that scale to hundreds of millions of travelers.

Do you enjoy building features end-to-end? Do you thrive working with a broad technology stack, releasing frequently, and collaborating with talented engineers worldwide? If so, we’d love to talk.

We collaborate closely with Product, Analytics, Data Science, CRM, Marketing, Finance, and Machine Learning teams across Tripadvisor’s global engineering organization.

What You’ll Do

Data Engineering & Data Products & Enablement

• Own the full lifecycle of business critical data pipelines: define SLAs, implement performance measurement, monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection, and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Define scalable, reusable data models and curated data sets for analytics, data science, CRM, machine learning, and other data consumers across the organization.
• Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT data pipelines that process terabyte- to petabyte-scale data across Snowflake, BigQuery, and other platforms.
• Design, build and maintain streaming and batch systems that power real-time and analytical workloads, and lead simplification of legacy ingestion paths.
• Drive warehouse standardization and technical-debt reduction as we consolidate toward one warehouse.
• Drive enterprise data integrity, validation, documentation, and governance practices — and the tooling that makes them the default rather than the exception.
• Apply AI to accelerate the team's own work (e.g., building reusable Claude skills for pipeline migrations and upgrades) and share those patterns with individual teams.
• Set and evolve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices for data modeling, pipeline design, testing, and observability.

Platform & Software Engineering

• Write and review production Java and Python code across our evolving platform stack — from data ingestion and event processing to REST services and internal tooling
• Architect and scale streaming and batch processing systems (Flink, Spark, Kafka) that power real-time and analytical workloads.
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering: design, implementation, QA, and maintenance, with a CI/CD mindset (most engineers release to production every few days).
• Design, operate, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure on AWS, applying strong judgment on performance, scalability, and cost.

Technical Leadership, Collaboration & Ownership

• Lead large size initiatives end to end: technical specs, design reviews, project planning, and delivery across teams.
• Set and uphold code and data quality through leadership in design and code review, and act as a technical mentor to engineers on the team and in the domains you enable.
• Translate ambiguous, cross-organizational data problems into clear, standardized solutions, and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Work with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them, in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.
• Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and Data Science leaders to shape specifications, challenge requirements constructively, and deliver high-impact solutions.

Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of data engineering or software development experience in a commercial setting, including a track record of technical leadership on medium-to-large projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience taking significant projects from design through production, with growing ownership of technical direction
• Deep experience designing and implementing complex ETL/ELT from concept to production, including SLAs, performance measurement, and monitoring.
• Comprehensive data design and data modeling experience, and advanced SQL across large, complex datasets.
• Extensive experience with big data technologies and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Hadoop/Hive) at terabyte-and-growing scale.
• Experience building reusable frameworks, platforms, or tooling that other engineers depend on (not just point solutions).
• Hands-on proficiency in both Python and Java for production systems.
• Systems performance and tuning expertise, with a clear understanding of how architectural decisions affect scalability and cost.
• Familiarity building REST services and working with event queue systems.
• Familiarity with Linux and cloud infrastructure design on AWS or equivalent cloud providers.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in loosely defined problem spaces, breaking down complex problems into simple pragmatic solutions, and prioritizing effectively..
• Strong interpersonal skills, intense curiosity, and enthusiasm for solving difficult problems.
• Self-paced, organized, and detail-oriented person with a strong sense of ownership

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages, including base salary, annual bonus, and more.
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like in select locations.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

• Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.
• Execution is our edge: We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.
• We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.

Discover more in our Tech Blog, for an inside look into some of our exciting and ground-breaking technical projects here at Tripadvisor Group.

Tripadvisor Group champions the unique identities, abilities, and experiences of all our people – employees, customers, and partners. This stems from our belief in the transformative power of travel, dining, and experiences to connect us