Senior AI/ML Data Engineer - Build Reliable Data Pipelines

11105 Expedia, Inc.; Washington; On-site; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Wellness & travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

Job summary

Expedia Group's Layla team is seeking a Senior AI/ML Data Engineer to build the data foundations powering AI-native travel experiences. You will design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines, own data quality and observability, and support experimentation and model evaluation in production.

Collaborating with Product, Analytics, and ML/engineering teams, you will turn ambitious questions into dependable data and self-serve insights, while promoting engineering excellence and mentoring other

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong data engineering expertise, including advanced SQL and data modeling, and experience designing and operating production data pipelines.
• Proficiency with Python for data engineering work.
• Demonstrated ability to own data quality, reliability, and observability for critical datasets in production.
• Familiarity with supporting AI/ML systems in production — such as data/feature pipelines, evaluation datasets, or experimentation — and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable data pipelines that power Layla's AI-native trip-planning and booking experiences across Layla and Bellboy.
• Own data quality, reliability, and observability across critical datasets, establishing well-documented, trustworthy data models that other teams can confidently extend.
• Build and support the data foundations for experimentation and model evaluation, enabling honest, timely readouts that inform product and AI/ML decisions.
• Enable the production use of AI/ML systems — supporting feature and data availability, evaluation datasets, and monitoring — while applying AI/ML concepts responsibly.
• Partner closely with Product, Analytics, and ML/engineering teams to turn ambiguous questions into dependable data and self-serve answers.
• Advocate for engineering excellence in data — testing, documentation, and reusable patterns — and mentor other engineers on best practices.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Observability

Data quality

Mentoring

AI/ML systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Snowflake

Looker

Metabase

Job description

Expedia Group's Layla team is seeking a Senior AI/ML Data Engineer to build the data foundations powering AI-native travel experiences. You will design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines, own data quality and observability, and support experimentation and model evaluation in production.

Collaborating with Product, Analytics, and ML/engineering teams, you will turn ambitious questions into dependable data and self-serve insights, while promoting engineering excellence and mentoring other