Data Engineer

The role

You will build the data foundation for machine learning by transforming large-scale raw data into production-ready datasets. You will partner with data scientists to design scalable pipelines and address data gaps.

What you will do

• Partner with Data Science teams to translate modeling needs into dataset requirements.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Platform to extend pipelines into ML-ready datasets.
• Design scalable and efficient dataset workflows.
• Ensure pipeline reliability through validation, monitoring, and alerting.
• Diagnose and resolve issues.
• Ship production-ready data solutions for ML applications.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to strengthen the data foundation.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.

Required qualifications

• Strong technical foundations in data engineering, software engineering, and systems design.
• Track record of building and operating reliable, large-scale data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience developing production data pipelines.
• Ownership, sound judgment, and systems thinking.
• Ability to navigate technical, reliability, cost, and risk trade-offs.
• Fluency with AI-assisted workflows.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, Iceberg, Trino, AWS, Kubernetes, Airflow, Python, SQL, and schema-based data contracts.
• Experience with feature stores or feature pipelines.
• Familiarity with Agile ways of working, such as sprint planning and team ceremonies.

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off a year
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer time
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups

About the company

KAYAK is a travel search engine and part of Booking Holdings. It operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined.