Senior AI/ML Data Engineer — Scalable Data Pipelines

Expedia, Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATA membership

Job summary

Expedia Group’s Layla team seeks a Senior AI/ML Data Engineer to build reliable data foundations powering AI-native travel experiences. You will own pipelines, data quality, and observability across critical datasets, enabling experimentation and model evaluation in production.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, and ML/engineering to deliver trustworthy data and self-serve insights, while promoting engineering best practices and scalable data systems.

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 production datasets.
• Familiarity with supporting AI/ML systems in production—data/feature pipelines, evaluation datasets, or experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate reliable, scalable data pipelines powering Layla’s AI-native travel experiences across Layla and Bellboy.
• Own data quality, reliability, and observability across critical datasets; establish well-documented, trustworthy data models.
• Build and support data foundations for experimentation and model evaluation to inform product and AI/ML decisions.
• Enable production use of AI/ML systems—support feature pipelines, evaluation datasets, and monitoring with responsible AI practices.
• Partner with Product, Analytics, and ML/engineering teams to turn questions into dependable data and self-serve answers.
• Advocate for engineering excellence in data—testing, documentation, and reusable patterns; mentor other engineers.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data Modeling

Python

Production Pipelines

Data Quality

Observability

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 seeks a Senior AI/ML Data Engineer to build reliable data foundations powering AI-native travel experiences. You will own pipelines, data quality, and observability across critical datasets, enabling experimentation and model evaluation in production.

You will collaborate with Product, Analytics, and ML/engineering to deliver trustworthy data and self-serve insights, while promoting engineering best practices and scalable data systems.