Data Engineer (Restaurant AI CoPilot)

Join OpenTable as a Data Engineer on the Data Science team. You will design, build, and maintain data solutions that power diner features, partner integrations, and advanced AI initiatives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data products and enhance user experiences globally. Enjoy generous benefits, including paid vacation, parental leave, and mental health support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust data solutions that power diner features, partner integrations, and advanced AI initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and govern production data services, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Monitor and optimize production systems to ensure high performance, data availability, and system integrity.

Requirements

• Experience working in cross-functional environments and collaborating with product and technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated professional experience in data engineering principles, data architecture, and software design

Experience constructing scalable batch and streaming data pipelines

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and at least one strongly typed language (such as Java)
• Proven track record of building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production data systems
• Experience with data engineering stack components such as PySpark, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, and AWS
• Familiarity with data storage and infrastructure solutions such as Kafka, Snowflake, Delta Lake, or vector/NoSQL databases
• Understanding of A/B testing best practices and data-driven product evaluation

Preferred

• Knowledge or experience in Machine Learning development (e.g., NLP, LLMs, RAG, recommendations, or MLOps)
• Familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and monitoring tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, or Grafana