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Data Engineer roles sit squarely within STEM OPT eligibility, letting you work for up to 36 months total on F-1 authorization as long as your employer is enrolled in E-Verify. Your 24-month extension kicks in after the initial 12-month OPT period, giving you a long runway to build production-grade pipelines and transition to long-term sponsorship.
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Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
DATA ENGINEER III
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and support scalable and durable data solutions that can enable self-service consumption use cases using cloud based technologies in an agile manner.
- Support Expedia Group’s product and business teams’ specific data needs on a global scale.
- Close partnership with internal partners from engineering, product, and business.
- Write clean, efficient and thoroughly tested code.
- Be part of an agile team that is continuously learning and improving.
- Develop scalable and highly-performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency).
- Design and deliver scalable LLM/AI-driven data solutions within ADAM (Advertising Data, Attribution, and Measurement), leveraging vector databases and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to power retrieval-augmented insights for Expedia Group’s Ad Tech business.
- Build and operate robust batch and streaming pipelines that generate embeddings and provision privacy-safe, high-quality data to LLM applications.
- Partner with Ads science, product, and sales to surface actionable insights for campaign performance, attribution, audience quality, forecasting, and yield optimization.
This position is not eligible for relocation benefits or assistance. May work remotely or from home 2 days/week; must live within commuting distance of Expedia office.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics or related field, and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a Data Engineering-related occupation.
Position requires:
- Apache Spark;
- Apache Flink;
- AWS Cloud Services;
- Scala;
- Java;
- Cassandra;
- MongoDB;
- SQL;
- NoSQL;
- GraphQL;
- DataDog; and
- Splunk.
COMPENSATION
- The total cash range for this position in Chicago, IL is $136,000 to $190,500/year.
- Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $217,500, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
- Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
INTRODUCTION
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.
Why Join Us?
To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.
We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
DATA ENGINEER III
In this role, you will:
- Design, build, and support scalable and durable data solutions that can enable self-service consumption use cases using cloud based technologies in an agile manner.
- Support Expedia Group’s product and business teams’ specific data needs on a global scale.
- Close partnership with internal partners from engineering, product, and business.
- Write clean, efficient and thoroughly tested code.
- Be part of an agile team that is continuously learning and improving.
- Develop scalable and highly-performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency).
- Design and deliver scalable LLM/AI-driven data solutions within ADAM (Advertising Data, Attribution, and Measurement), leveraging vector databases and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to power retrieval-augmented insights for Expedia Group’s Ad Tech business.
- Build and operate robust batch and streaming pipelines that generate embeddings and provision privacy-safe, high-quality data to LLM applications.
- Partner with Ads science, product, and sales to surface actionable insights for campaign performance, attribution, audience quality, forecasting, and yield optimization.
This position is not eligible for relocation benefits or assistance. May work remotely or from home 2 days/week; must live within commuting distance of Expedia office.
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
Employer will accept a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics or related field, and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a Data Engineering-related occupation.
Position requires:
- Apache Spark;
- Apache Flink;
- AWS Cloud Services;
- Scala;
- Java;
- Cassandra;
- MongoDB;
- SQL;
- NoSQL;
- GraphQL;
- DataDog; and
- Splunk.
COMPENSATION
- The total cash range for this position in Chicago, IL is $136,000 to $190,500/year.
- Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $217,500, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
- Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS
If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.
We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.
Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50
Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com.
Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Data Engineer
Filter employers by E-Verify enrollment status
Your STEM OPT extension is void if your employer isn't enrolled in E-Verify. Confirm enrollment through the official E-Verify employer search before signing an offer, not after. Many startups and smaller data teams aren't enrolled yet.
Target companies with active LCA filings for data roles
Employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for Data Engineer or Data Analyst roles have already navigated DOL wage and compliance requirements. That track record signals they understand the full STEM OPT-to-H-1B pipeline and won't treat your authorization as a blocker.
Build your I-983 training plan around real deliverables
Your I-983 must map STEM learning objectives to specific job duties, not generic descriptions. Draft it around concrete deliverables like pipeline architecture, data modeling work, or ML infrastructure so your DSO can certify it without revision cycles.
Use Migrate Mate to identify E-Verify employers hiring data engineers
Search Migrate Mate to find Data Engineer roles at employers with verified sponsorship history. The platform surfaces DOL Labor Condition Application data by role and employer so you can target companies already familiar with STEM OPT workflows before you apply.
Time your H-1B registration to cover your OPT end date
If USCIS selects your H-1B registration before your STEM OPT expires, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization through September 30. Missing the registration window means a gap in authorization even if you have a valid offer and an enrolled employer.
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Does a Data Engineer role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your degree's CIP code appears on USCIS's STEM Designated Degree Program List. Degrees in computer science, information systems, electrical engineering, applied mathematics, and statistics are common qualifying fields for Data Engineer roles. The job title alone doesn't determine eligibility; your recorded degree CIP code does. Confirm the code with your DSO before submitting your extension application.
What E-Verify requirement applies to my STEM OPT employer?
Every employer that hires you under a STEM OPT extension must be actively enrolled in E-Verify, not just registered. Enrollment must be in place before your extension start date. You can confirm enrollment through the official E-Verify employer search tool. If your employer loses enrollment or is debarred during your extension period, you must stop working and report the change to your DSO within five business days.
What should my I-983 training plan include for a Data Engineer position?
Your I-983 must connect specific STEM learning objectives to actual job duties. For a Data Engineer role, that means documenting work on tasks like building ETL pipelines, designing data warehouses, implementing data quality frameworks, or developing ML infrastructure. Generic descriptions like 'working with data' won't satisfy USCIS review standards. Your employer's supervisor must sign the plan, and your DSO certifies it before your extension is approved.
How does cap-gap protection work if I'm a Data Engineer on STEM OPT?
If your employer files an H-1B petition on your behalf and USCIS selects it in the lottery before your STEM OPT authorization expires, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization through September 30 of that year. You can keep working as a Data Engineer during that window without any interruption. If your petition isn't selected or your employer misses the filing deadline, cap-gap doesn't apply and your work authorization ends with your STEM OPT.
How do I find Data Engineer jobs at employers who support STEM OPT?
Search Migrate Mate to browse Data Engineer roles at employers with documented Labor Condition Application filing history. LCA data from DOL shows which companies have already gone through the wage attestation and compliance process for similar roles, which is a reliable signal that they're set up to support STEM OPT extensions and eventual H-1B sponsorship. Filter results to E-Verify-enrolled employers before you apply.
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