About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Role Description :

Within Growth Marketing, the Messaging & Rewards area is responsible for delivering timely, relevant and measurable customer communications and incentives that help travelers discover, book, engage and return to Booking.com across the full customer lifecycle.

As a Data Engineer in this area, you will help build the data foundation that powers Messaging & Rewards use cases across channels such as email, push notifications, in-app messaging and emerging channels. Your work will focus on creating reliable, scalable and well-governed data pipelines and datasets that enable audience creation, campaign performance measurement, funnel observability, customer engagement analysis, personalization and rewards effectiveness.

You will have the opportunity to work on foundational problems such as event logging, sent and engagement data coverage, cross-channel attribution, pipeline reliability and the modeling of customer and messaging data needed to support both operational decision-making and long-term product and marketing strategy.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

As a Data Engineer, you will be in charge of the development, performance, quality, and scaling of our data pipelines, focusing especially on data quality. You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within a team.

Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance data pipelines.
Solving issues with data and data pipelines, prioritizing based on customer impact.
End-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines.
Experimenting with new tools and technologies, driving innovative engineering solutions to meet business requirements regarding performance, scaling, and data quality.
Providing tools that improve data quality company-wide.
Providing self-organizing tools that help the analytics community discover data, assess quality, explore usage, and find peers with relevant expertise.
Serving as the main point of contact for technical and business stakeholders regarding data engineering issues, such as pipeline failures and data quality concerns.
Acquiring technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences, and active community participation

Role Qualifications and Requirements

You have 3-5 years of relevant professional experience as a Data Engineer, Software Engineer or in a similar data-focused role, and hold a Master's degree in a quantitative field.
Proven knowledge of Python is required; experience with Java or Scala is a plus.
You have hands-on experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines and data processing systems in cloud and hybrid environments, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability and data quality.
You have experience designing systems end to end and a solid understanding of architecture fundamentals such as APIs, distributed systems, storage, caching, data modeling and system reliability.
You have practical experience with modern data and orchestration technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, DBT, CDC patterns, cloud storage and related data engineering tools.
You have experience working with data warehousing and ETL/ELT pipelines, and understand how to model, transform and expose data so it can be trusted and effectively used by analytics, product and machine learning stakeholders.
You are comfortable owning data products and services in production, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, documentation and on-call support where required.
You are able to balance business needs, technical constraints and long-term maintainability when evaluating solutions, and you actively look for opportunities to improve process efficiency, platform quality and engineering standards.
Excellent communication skills are essential; you are able to work effectively with developers, product managers, ML scientists and ML engineers, and translate requirements into robust technical solutions that enable high-quality data products.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

Booking.com's Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

Inclusion at Booking.com:

Inclusion has been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It's a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech."

We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Application Process:

Let's go places together: How we Hire
This role does not come with relocation assistance.

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

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