Senior Data Platform Engineer - Lakehouse & Catalog

Expedia, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Lake and Catalog team in London. You will design, build, and operate scalable data lake services, focusing on reliability, observability, and end-to-end platform quality.

You will mentor engineers, partner with cross-functional teams, and help evolve the lakehouse architecture using Hive, Spark, and Iceberg. This role offers high-impact work at scale in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a senior software engineer building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong knowledge of JVM and server-side Kotlin/Java.
• Extensive experience with Spark, Hadoop, Hive and data lake technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve scalable, observable software for our data lake platform.
• Lead by example in engineering quality through well-tested code and practices.
• Promote an SLO-driven culture with reliability, observability, and incident learnings.

Skills

JVM

Kotlin/Java

Spark

Hadoop

Hive

AWS

EMR

S3

Glue

Agile

Observability

Mentoring

Tools

Circus Train

Waggle Dance

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Expedia Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Data Lake and Catalog team in London. You will design, build, and operate scalable data lake services, focusing on reliability, observability, and end-to-end platform quality.

You will mentor engineers, partner with cross-functional teams, and help evolve the lakehouse architecture using Hive, Spark, and Iceberg. This role offers high-impact work at scale in a fast-paced environment.