ETL Engineer, KAYAK
$115-130k
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
Travel search engine
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Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$115-130k
This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy working cross-functionally, and are eager to embrace change (especially innovations like AI coding assistants), this could be your next adventure!
- 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering
- Proficient in SQL and Python, and know how to write scalable, maintainable code
- Worked with AI coding tools and are excited about how they’re shaping the future of development
- Understand modern data architecture from ingestion to transformation to delivery
- Built and operated Airflow pipelines (or something similar)
- You’re comfortable estimating project scope, managing timelines, and delivering reliably
- Excellent collaborator and communicator, comfortable working with technical and non-technical peers
- Solution-oriented and driven by curiosity
- Welcome change and innovation, and you’re quick to adapt your tools and practices
- Thrive in an international, fast-paced, and feedback-driven environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Data Engineer with a solid foundation in building robust data pipelines and a collaborative mindset to join our Marketing Data Engineering team
- You'll design, build, and maintain high-performance data pipelines and orchestration workflows
- Write clean, modular Python code to transform, parse, clean, and enrich large datasets
- Support stakeholders by developing dashboards and visualizations
- Partner closely with marketing analysts, engineers, and data scientists to define and deliver data needs
- Actively participate in agile ceremonies, code reviews, and planning discussions
- Experiment with and use AI coding tools to boost productivity and code quality
- Our Tech Stack:
- Languages: Python, SQL
- Workflow orchestration: Airflow
- Query engine: Trino
- Data warehouse: Vertica
- Source control: Git
- AI coding tools: Cursor
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business, and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services, but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
East Side of Stamford, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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