Software Engineer II (Cloud Data Services - AWS)

We believe that we are better together, and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone, as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor, we want you to bring your unique perspective and experiences, so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

Tripadvisor is the world’s largest travel website, and we have a LOT of data! With over 1 billion reviews, opinions, photos, and videos, reaching an audience of hundreds of millions worldwide each month. We are a data driven company, and our data infrastructure forms the foundation.

Our team is responsible for building the tools that unlock that data across Tripadvisor. We build orchestration tools, scheduling tools, and ETL generation tools to enable cloud migrations and support petabyte scale operations.

Across Tripadvisor, we’ve worked hard to create a great environment for engineers - minimizing process, shipping products quickly, and doing everything to avoid big company paralysis. In this role, within the data platform engineering group, you will help us design, build, and operate our data services infrastructure which is at the core of our data-driven culture.

What you’ll do:

• Take responsibility for the quality of the code produced.
• Take responsibility for all aspects of software engineering, from design to implementation, QA, and maintenance.
• Operate across our evolving technology stack - Java, Kotlin, Python, React, SQL, Spark/Flink, Snowflake and more.
• Implement new features in a powerful and widely used ETL orchestration tool.
• Investigate and use Cloud Technologies to deploy our software.
• Integrate with production Data Sources and our petabyte scale data lake.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Analytics as well as other functional teams to define feature specifications and develop high-quality deliverables for our customers.
• Work with technical leadership to make strategic technology decisions
• Work alongside other engineering groups located around the world (US, Lisbon, UK, India).

Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years' experience as a professional engineer
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• A strong history of development with Java or a JVM based language
• Proven record of successful software development

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of the modern AWS Data Ecosystem, including AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS EKS, AWS S3, and AWS Lambda
• Experience developing ETL processes and streaming data pipelines; including defining SLAs and performance monitoring
• Experience with Python or Kotlin.
• Experience with Spring Boot.
• Experience developing for large-scale, full life-cycle, software applications
• Strong interpersonal skills, intense curiosity, and enthusiasm for solving difficult problems.
• Familiarity with big data modeling and tools (Spark, Snowflake, Big Query, Presto,etc)

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