Data Engineer III - Partner Data (AI)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States

Salary: $146,000–$204,500 per year, with potential pay up to $233,500 based on sustained performance.

Company

hirify.global is a global travel company operating consumer brands, a B2B travel network, and travel advertising businesses.

What you will do

• Own complex, business-critical data products from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Design and build scalable, reliable data services, APIs, data models, and batch and streaming pipelines.
• Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle to accelerate development, strengthen automated testing, and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, data, and business stakeholders on cross-team designs and technical trade-offs.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor earlier-career engineers, and promote responsible use of AI tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience owning data products and delivering at least one significant end-to-end service or product using AI tools such as Claude, Codex, or Copilot.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Java or Scala, with strong computer science fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with low-level system design, API design, data modeling, and batch and streaming data pipelines.

Nice to have

• Experience building reliable, scalable systems on cloud platforms and applying resilience and operational best practices.
• Experience developing AI-driven coding agent frameworks, including MCP and spec-driven development.
• Experience defining AI governance practices for secure and compliant AI system development.
• Experience with Spark, Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, Scylla, or Iceberg.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical workstreams that improve performance, reliability, or developer productivity.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a collaborative environment guided by traveler-first, ownership, operational excellence, and shared-success principles.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and IATAN membership.
• Inclusive and accessible recruiting and employment practices.