Senior Data Engineer

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Job description

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world's leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We're also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business.

As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is at our core and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Business Intelligence team.

Our team builds and operates the data backbone that serves as the single source of truth for the organization. We manage KAYAK’s business-critical reporting to support billing and provide the foundation for company-wide reporting and analytics.

If you want to build the systems that define how the business measures success, we’d love to hear from you.

This role will be required to work from our Concord, MA office 3 days per week.

In this role, you will:

• Architect for scale: Develop and monitor robust data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Rundeck/Airflow that handle large-scale data volumes with high reliability.

• Optimize performance: Design performant data models and optimize complex SQL queries for high-scale environments.

• Ensure data reliability: build automated checks and alerts to catch errors early so financial and operational reports remain accurate.

• Increase data access: automate repetitive tasks and build self-service tools to make data easier to use across teams.

• Drive engineering excellence: experiment with and leverage AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.

• Work with partners across the company: translate business questions into practical, maintainable technical solutions.

Please apply if you have:

• 5+ years of proven experience in data engineering or analytics engineering within a related data-centric environment.

• Experience owning end-to-end data pipelines (ingest → transform → test → monitor).

• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with distributed/columnar/OLAP systems (examples: Redshift, Trino, Vertica) and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres).

• Proficiency in Python and a software-engineering approach to building testable, maintainable code.

• Experience with workflow orchestration and containerization (examples: Airflow, Docker).

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for investigating data issues.

• Strong written and spoken English to communicate effectively across teams.

We welcome diverse technical backgrounds. Nice-to-have experience:

• Stream processing or real-time systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink).

• Modern BI tooling (e.g., Looker, Superset).

• CI/CD and deployment automation (e.g., GitHub Actions).

• Web frameworks for internal tools (e.g., Django, Flask).

Benefits and Perks:

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth

  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace

  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)

• No meeting Fridays

• Paid parental leave

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

• Paid volunteer time

• Focus on your career growth:

  • Development Dollars

  • Leadership development

  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

• Travel Discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• Competitive retirement and health plans

• Free lunch 2 days per week

• Fun quarterly events such as boat trips, arcades, ski trips, Thursday happy hours, and more

Compensation

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this United States located role is $130,000 - 160,000.00, not inclusive of annual bonus or recurring RSU grants.

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits.

Inclusion

At KAYAK, we want everyone to have the space to grow, share ideas and do great work. That’s why we’re focused on hiring the best talent from all walks of life and experiences, supporting them well and making sure no one feels like they have to fit a mold to belong here.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.

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Massachusetts is in the Northeast region (New England division) and has 7,044,056 residents (the 16th largest of the 50 states and DC by population), with a median age of 40.0. Its economy produced about $834,474 million in the latest four quarters (BEA), 12th among states and DC, equal to $118,465 per resident.

Jobs and the labour market

The unemployment rate was 4.3% in 2026M09, which is 35th lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 3.4% of employment, 44th highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $63,590 a year ($30.57 an hour), 25% above the national median ($63,590 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in Massachusetts are Home Health and Personal Care Aides (117,940 jobs, median $40,910); General and Operations Managers (95,880 jobs, median $127,220); Registered Nurses (88,200 jobs, median $104,550); Retail Salespersons (86,860 jobs, median $36,610); Fast Food and Counter Workers (85,810 jobs, median $35,850). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Family Medicine Physicians (median $277,490); Natural Sciences Managers (median $267,290); Physicians, All Other (median $236,580). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in life, physical, and social science (2.3 times the national share of workers) and architecture and engineering (1.3 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are above the national average in Massachusetts: the regional price parity is 105.8 against 100 for the whole country (45th lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $1,762 a month and the median household income $103,960, so a year of rent equals 20.3% of income; the median home value is $562,100. The state minimum wage is $15.00 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: Graduated, top rate 9.00%. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It runs a state paid family and medical leave programme.

People and commuting

18.1% of residents were born abroad and 47.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 61.2% drive alone, 6.5% use public transit and 18.6% work from home; 21.5% commute 45 minutes or more.

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