Data Engineer III

Expedia, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Data Engineer III to join the Digital Operations Supply Marketing (DigOps Engineering) team in Seattle. You will own data pipelines that ingest paid media spend, impressions, clicks, and conversions across multiple ad platforms, and model analytics data to power cross-channel reporting.

You will mentor engineers and contribute to scalable distributed systems. The role emphasizes AWS-based data processing, RESTful services, and collaboration with marketers and analysts

Qualifications

• 5+ years of development experience, particularly in using marketing acquisition technologies to deliver automation of multiple channels and drive operational efficiencies.
• 4+ years’ experience with Java, Scala, or Python stack
• Experience building data pipelines from multiple sources including APIs, CSV, event streams, NoSQL
• Experience integrating with advertising platform APIs (e.g., Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta Marketing API)
• Familiarity with paid media concepts and metrics (spend, impressions, clicks, CTR, CPC, conversions, ROAS)
• Experience with database design, data modeling, performance optimization, SQL
• Demonstrable history creating on and leveraging AWS
• Experience in batch and/or stream processing (Spark) and with Kafka/SQS
• Understanding RESTful services and APIs

Responsibilities

• Develop data capture, processing, storage and distribution components.
• Apply AWS standard methodologies for compute, storage and databases.
• Translate marketing requirements into functional specifications.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead complex projects.
• Build and operate paid media data pipelines ingesting ad platform data.
• Model paid media and web analytics data to power reporting across verticals.
• Onboard new paid media channels and extend reporting pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

AWS

Data modeling

Mentoring

Agile methods

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree (advantage)

Tools

Java

Scala

Python

Spark

Kafka/SQS

Airflow

SQL

Marketo/SFMC

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Data Engineer III

Introduction to the Team

Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry to our leading technology, supply, and services - helping them deliver seamless travel experiences to their customers. From airlines and hotels to financial institutions and other travel platforms, we power smarter, faster, and more impactful travel solutions through the most connected marketplace in the world.

Digital Operations Supply Marketing (DigOps Engineering) sits at the intersection of supply marketing and engineering, organized into three streams: Data Engineering, Software Engineering, and Innovation. This role sits on Data Engineering, which owns the ETL pipelines moving data to/from Marketo, SFMC, paid media and advertising platforms, and other marketing platforms across our business verticals (Hotels, VR, B2B/Connectivity, OCF), including the paid media reporting pipelines that bring ad spend and performance data into our Partner Marketing Data Store. Software Engineering builds the self-service utilities that let marketers and designers move faster, and Innovation drives new capabilities for the team.

Make An Impact!

Are you a data engineer looking to join a leading technology company? Are you passionate about data and everything it powers? Are you ready to help people travel, go from anywhere to somewhere, by all means possible? If this sounds like you, keep reading!

The Expedia B2B Digital Operations Supply Marketing team are looking for a Data Engineer III to join the team!

This role will act as a key technical contributor on the team supporting the continuous improvement of our data pipelines and systems, to empower our marketing team to deliver best in class marketing campaigns. You will focus on paid media data: ingesting, modeling and monitoring ad platform spend, performance and attribution data so marketers can measure and optimize paid campaigns across our business verticals.

If you are someone with a growth mindset and love solving complex and challenging problems, come join us on this exciting journey.

In This Role You Will:

• Develop various facets of data capture, data processing, storage and distribution
• Understand and apply AWS standard methodologies and products (compute, storage, databases)
• Translate marketing concepts/requirements into functional specifications
• Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code
• Propose new ways of doing things and contribute to the system architecture
• Manage ETL data to and from Expedia Group entities to third party solutions
• Build and operate paid media data pipelines that ingest spend, impressions, clicks and conversion data from ad platforms (such as Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, Meta, LinkedIn, YouTube, Amazon DSP, Criteo, Reddit and Pinterest) through platform APIs and bulk reports
• Model paid media and web analytics data (including GA4 attribution) in our medallion data layers to power campaign-, channel- and geo-level performance reporting across business verticals
• Onboard new paid media channels and accounts, and extend existing ad reporting pipelines as platforms, APIs and business needs change
• Own data quality, freshness and reconciliation for paid media data, using data quality as code and monitoring and alerting (such as EGDQ and Datadog) to catch late or incorrect data before it reaches marketers
• Partner with paid media marketers and analysts to define metrics, support dashboards and scorecards (such as Tableau), and turn ad performance data into decisions on spend
• Create and maintain functional utilities (SPAs) that provide point solutions to scale our marketing operations
• Develop scalable and highly-performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency)
• Communicate and document solutions and design decisions
• Work with business collaborators, analytics, and senior leadership to define and scope solutions that the marketing team can leverage to efficiently scale out our marketing operations
• Mentor junior engineers, lead code reviews, and lead complex, well-defined projects

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent related professional experience, with 5+ years of experience; or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of experience
• 5+ years of development experience, particularly in using marketing acquisition technologies to deliver automation of multiple channels and drive operational efficiencies
• 4+ years’ experience with Java, Scala, or Python stack
• Experience building data pipelines from multiple sources including APIs, CSV, event streams, NoSQL, etc. using distributed data frameworks
• Experience integrating with advertising platform APIs (for example Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising or Meta Marketing API), including authentication, pagination, rate limits, schema changes and backfills
• Familiarity with paid media concepts and metrics (spend, impressions, clicks, CTR, CPC, conversions, ROAS) and with the difference between platform-reported and web analytics (such as GA4) data
• Experience with different aspects of data systems including database design, data modeling, performance optimization, SQL etc
• Demonstrable history creating on and leveraging AWS
• Experience in batch and/or stream processing (using Spark) and streaming systems/queues such as Kafka or SQS
• Daily practice of agile methods including use of sprints, backlog, user stories
• AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cassandra, SQL
• Spark, Kafka/SQS, Airflow, Iceberg, or other modern big data and streaming technologies
• Understand, Analyze, design, develop, as well as implement RESTful services and APIs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with paid media reporting across channels (search, social, video, display, programmatic) and cross-LOB performance reporting, including ad spend tracking and campaign performance signals, is a strong plus
• Experience with marketing attribution and measurement (multi-touch attribution, marketing mix modeling, incrementality), or with data quality and observability tooling for marketing data, is a plus
• Hands-on experience with marketing technology (MarTech) platforms such as Marketo or Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) is a strong plus, including familiarity with campaign data models, audience segmentation, and marketing API integrations

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $146,000.00 to $204,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $233,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $146,000.00 to $204,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $233,500.00, 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.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.