Senior Data Engineer

About Tripadvisor

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the worlds most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands technology and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content travel guidance and two-sided marketplaces for experiences accommodations restaurants and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP) include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses including Tripadvisor Viator and TheFork.

Our Data Platform team is the engineering backbone of Tripadvisors data ecosystem. Formed from the core fundamentals of our Data Engineering and Software Engineering (Data Platform) groups this unified team combines deep data pipeline expertise with robust platform engineering capabilities.

We are responsible for providing the software and infrastructure that enable Tripadvisor to better understand visitor preferences and drive GenAI Analytical and DSML initiatives at petabyte scale. We build the frameworks infrastructure tooling data modeling and best practices that ensure consistent well-governed high-quality data products everywhere; and we directly own a deliberate set of business-critical cross-cutting data products.

Our work spans:

• Streaming and batch data platforms that unlock data across Tripadvisor
• ETL pipelines and data models serving terabytes and growing datasets in Snowflake BigQuery and Hive
• Orchestration scheduling and ETL generation tools to support cloud migrations and petabyte-scale operations
• Tracking instrumentation information architecture and data governance tooling for business-critical analytics
• Self-service and agentic analytics capabilities governed natural-language access to trustworthy data

Tripadvisor is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our fast-moving Data Platform this role you will design build and sustain the data infrastructure that powers the worlds most trusted travel platform. Youll pair strong software engineering fundamentals with deep data engineering expertise set technical direction architecting reliable pipelines and delivering end-to-end solutions that scale to hundreds of millions of travelers.

Do you enjoy building features end-to-end Do you thrive working with a broad technology stack releasing frequently and collaborating with talented engineers worldwide If so wed love to talk.

We collaborate closely with Product Analytics Data Science CRM Marketing Finance and Machine Learning teams across Tripadvisors global engineering organization.

What Youll Do

• Own the full lifecycle of business critical data pipelines: define SLAs implement performance measurement monitoring alerting and anomaly detection and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Define scalable reusable data models and curated data sets for analytics data science CRM machine learning and other data consumers across the organization.
• Design build and maintain robust ETL/ELT data pipelines that process terabyte- to petabyte-scale data across Snowflake BigQuery and other platforms.
• Design build and maintain streaming and batch systems that power real-time and analytical workloads and lead simplification of legacy ingestion paths.
• Drive warehouse standardization and technical-debt reduction as we consolidate toward one warehouse.
• Drive enterprise data integrity validation documentation and governance practices and the tooling that makes them the default rather than the exception.
• Apply AI to accelerate the teams own work (e.g. building reusable Claude skills for pipeline migrations and upgrades) and share those patterns with individual teams.
• Set and evolve engineering standards patterns and best practices for data modeling pipeline design testing and observability.

• Write and review production Java and Python code across our evolving platform stack from data ingestion and event processing to REST services and internal tooling
• Architect and scale streaming and batch processing systems (Flink Spark Kafka) that power real-time and analytical workloads.
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering: design implementation QA and maintenance with a CI/CD mindset (most engineers release to production every few days).
• Design operate and continuously improve cloud infrastructure on AWS applying strong judgment on performance scalability and cost.

Technical Leadership Collaboration & Ownership

• Lead large size initiatives end to end: technical specs design reviews project planning and delivery across teams.
• Set and uphold code and data quality through leadership in design and code review and act as a technical mentor to engineers on the team and in the domains you enable.
• Translate ambiguous cross-organizational data problems into clear standardized solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Work with independence and a mandate to leave things better than you found them in a fast-paced globally distributed environment.
• Partner with Product Design Analytics and Data Science leaders to shape specifications challenge requirements constructively and deliver high-impact solutions.

Skills & Experience

• 8 years of data engineering or software development experience in a commercial setting including a track record of technical leadership on medium-to-large projects.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience taking significant projects from design through production with growing ownership of technical direction
• Deep experience designing and implementing complex ETL/ELT from concept to production including SLAs performance measurement and monitoring.
• Comprehensive data design and data modeling experience and advanced SQL across large complex datasets.
• Extensive experience with big data technologies and cloud data warehouses (Snowflake BigQuery Hadoop/Hive) at terabyte-and-growing scale.
• Experience building reusable frameworks platforms or tooling that other engineers depend on (not just point solutions).
• Hands-on proficiency in both Python and Java for production systems.
• Systems performance and tuning expertise with a clear understanding of how architectural decisions affect scalability and cost.
• Familiarity building REST services and working with event queue systems.
• Familiarity with Linux and cloud infrastructure design on AWS or equivalent cloud providers.
• Comfortable operating with autonomy in loosely defined problem spaces breaking down complex problems into simple pragmatic solutions and prioritizing effectively..
• Strong interpersonal skills intense curiosity and enthusiasm for solving difficult problems.
• Self-paced organized and detail-oriented person with a strong sense of ownership
• Strong communication skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages including base salary annual bonus and more.
• Work your way with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. We take a remote-friendly approach to collaboration with the option to join on-site as often as youd like in select locations.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel wellness or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. Were here for you with resources and programs to help you through lifes challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

• Traveller first: We exist to create value for our customer the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.
• Execution is our edge: We act fast experiment learn from failure iterate and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile data-driven prioritised and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone elses problem and finish what can be done today knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.
• We succeed together: The best outcomes are driven by empathic humble and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly challenge assumptions give actionable feedback and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort our learnings and our collective achievements.

Discover more in our Tech Blog for an inside look into some of our exciting and ground-breaking technical projects here at Tripadvisor Group.

Tripadvisor Group champions the unique identities abilities and experiences of all our people employees customers and partners. This stems from our belief in the transformative power of travel dining and experiences to connect us and open doors to worlds very different from our own. Our ED&I strategy shapes how we approach our people culture business and reputation. Tripadvisor Group strives to embed inclusion and belonging across all our brands.

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