Data Engineer
United Airlines8 days ago
Chicago, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$94k - $123k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance cloud-native infrastructure and services.
- Establish scalable containerized and serverless platforms and develop automation tools and applications using AWS.
- Design and develop resilient batch and real-time data pipelines using Spark, Python, Databricks, and Flink.
- Support and optimize large-scale data pipelines in distributed, highly available, horizontally scalable environments.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize critical data infrastructure.
- Apply engineering expertise to deliver scalable, maintainable, high-performing data solutions.
- Evaluate and adopt technologies that improve platform scalability, resilience, and developer productivity.
- Advance intelligent automation through modern AI technologies.
- Collaborate with business users, product owners, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into optimized data pipelines and practical solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data processing frameworks including Spark and PySpark.
- Familiarity with AWS services including Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, Athena, and S3.
- Ability to collaborate with business users and product owners to design optimized data pipelines.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
- Successful completion of the interview and reliable, punctual attendance are required.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor’s degree relevant to machine learning, 3+ years of data engineering experience, advanced knowledge of machine learning algorithms and techniques, experience deploying machine learning pipelines to production, and understanding of machine learning workflows and MLOps practices.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, accident, and disability benefits.
- Parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter benefits, paid holidays, and paid time off.
- 401(k) and flight privileges.
- Eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.
- United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About United Airlines
United Airlines is a major U.S. carrier that provides passenger air travel and air cargo services across a global network spanning six continents. The company sells tickets and ancillary services through united.com and its mobile apps, operates the MileagePlus loyalty program with co-brand credit card partnerships, and supports operations with large-scale digital systems. Headquartered in Chicago, it is part of publicly traded United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ: UAL) and a member of Star Alliance.