# Senior Data Engineer

Hiring organization: [Kayak.com](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/kayak-com)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/607bbd17-ce1e-4b0c-9a94-df232f1988f0

Listed on Kayak.com's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Concord Office
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 130000 – 160000 USD per year

## Summary

KAYAK seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain the data pipelines that power their travel search platform's business-critical reporting and analytics. This role suits someone who enjoys working at scale with SQL and Python to build reliable systems that drive how the organization measures success.

_Our summary, not Kayak.com's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Redshift, Apache Airflow, Docker, MySQL, Python, SQL, Vertica

## Required

- 5+ years of data engineering or analytics engineering experience
- End-to-end data pipeline ownership (ingest, transform, test, monitor)
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with distributed/columnar/OLAP systems
- Python proficiency with software-engineering approach to code
- Workflow orchestration and containerization experience (Airflow, Docker)
- Analytical and troubleshooting skills for data investigation
- Strong written and spoken English

## Nice to have

- Stream processing or real-time systems (Kafka, Flink)
- Modern BI tooling (Looker, Superset)
- CI/CD and deployment automation (GitHub Actions)
- Web frameworks for internal tools (Django, Flask)

Apply on Kayak.com's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/KAYAK/d90e28af-5ad0-4388-9d8b-a0ad8d7eb747/application