Software Development Engineer II - Enterprise Data Product

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team

Enterprise Data Product at Expedia Group builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality data experiences for travelers, partners, and our internal teams. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the travelers and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software services and components that contribute to Expedia Group’s customer and partner experiences
• Implement clean, maintainable code in collaboration with peers, using modern engineering practices, code reviews, and version control to ensure high-quality delivery
• Participate in system design, including low-level design (LLD), API design, and data modeling, to build scalable, reliable, and observable systems and services
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the software development lifecycle, contributing to incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of service reliability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, break down work into executable tasks, and deliver features that can be reused across multiple domains and products
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
• 2 years of relevant professional experience
• Experience owning components or services within a broader system, including responsibility for implementation quality, basic operational support, and participation in on-call or incident response as appropriate
• Proficiency in core computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design) and in designing and consuming APIs and data models
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and ability to safely integrate AI/ML enabled capabilities into existing services under guidance
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing low-level designs, APIs, and data models for services that operate at scale, including considerations for performance, reliability, and observability
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to architecture discussions within a team or domain, including evaluating tradeoffs, proposing technical approaches, and aligning with established patterns
• Experience integrating or extending AI/ML enabled capabilities in production systems in a safe, compliant, and cost-effective way, such as using AI-driven tools for testing, coding assistance, or personalization features
• Exposure to working across multiple product or service domains, with demonstrated adaptability to new technologies, stacks, or problem spaces and a growing ability to apply AI/ML concepts to real world products
• Strong understanding of batch incremental processing patterns, including backfills, data quality validation, and failure recovery
• Ability to build and evolve data pipelines with high data quality standards, including validation, lineage, and SLA management
• Experience working with distributed data systems (e.g., Spark, Trino, Iceberg) and optimizing for performance and cost
• Familiarity with API-first or data-as-a-product approaches, enabling reusable and discoverable datasets
• Familiarity with streaming technologies like Apache Kafka or Apache Flink
  
  

No relocation assistance offered

Please note that this role is only available in the following location: Austin in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week. We are unable to offer relocation assistance for this role.

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $119,000.00 to $166,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $190,500.00, 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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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