$130,000 – $160,000
Listed on Kayak.com’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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)