Data Engineer

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place. 

Why this job’s a big deal:

Enjoy working with big data? We do too!  In fact, data lies at the very core of our business! As a data engineer you will be working on data systems that serve and generate billions of events  each day. Working with ERP and FP&A systems, you will leverage data to understand, meet, and anticipate the needs of finance and FP&A users. 

In this role you will get to:

• Participate in cloud migration and modernizing current data systems.

• Oversee data systems that serve hundreds of millions of real time events a day.

• Maintain and design early warning and analytics systems using cutting edge big data technologies.

• Collaborate on building software that collects and queries data, while also composing queries for investigation purposes.

• Analyze and provide data supported recommendations to improve product performance and customer acquisition. 

• Diagnose and troubleshoot any issues within data infrastructure.

Who you are: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. 

• 4+ years of work experience in Software Engineering and development.

• Expert knowledge of Big Data solutions such as Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and RabbitMQ (nice to have)

• Expert knowledge in data modeling

• Strong experience with GCP tools – Dataflow, Dataproc 

• Strong knowledge of databases – CloudSQL (MySQL, Postgres), BigQuery

• Experience with Data Visualization tools – Tableau  (optional)

• Proficient in Java or Python 

• Experience with strategies such as indexing, machine-learned rankings, clustering and distributed concepts.

• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline:  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. 

• The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.

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