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Role: Senior Principal Data Engineer Location: Gurugram Years of Experience: 10-12 Years About Role: We are looking for experienced Data engineers with excellent problem-solving skills to develop machine-learning powered Data Products design to enhance customer experiences. About us: Nurtured from the seed of a single great idea - to empower the traveler - MakeMyTrip went on to pioneer India's online travel industry Founded in the year 2000 by Deep Kalra, MakeMyTrip has since transformed how India travels. One of our most memorable moments has been to ring the bell at NASDAQ in 2010. Post-merger with the Ibibo group in 2017, we created a stronger identity and traction for our portfolio of brands, increasing the pace of product and technology innovations. Ranked amongst the LinkedIn Top 25 companies 2018. GO-MMT is the corporate entity of three giants in the Online Travel IndustryGoibibo, MakeMyTrip and RedBus. The GO-MMT family celebrates the compounded strengths of their brands. The group company is easily the most sought after corporate in the online travel industry. About the team: MakeMyTrip as India's leading online travel company and provides petabytes of raw data which is helpful for business growth, analytical and machine learning needs. Data Platform Team is a horizontal function at MakeMyTrip to support various LOBs (Flights, Hotels, Holidays, Ground) and works heavily on streaming datasets which powers personalized experiences for every customer from recommendations to in-location engagement. There are two key responsibilities of Data Engineering team: One to develop the platform for data capture, storage, processing, serving and querying. Second is to develop data products starting from; o personalization & recommendation platform o customer segmentation & intelligence o data insights engine for persuasions and o the customer engagement platform to help marketers craft contextual and personalized campaigns over multi-channel communications to users We developed Feature Store, an internal unified data analytics platform that helps us to build reliable data pipelines, simplify featurization and accelerate model training. This enabled us to enjoy actionable insights into what customers want, at scale, and to drive richer, personalized online experiences. Technology experience : Extensive experience working with large data sets with hands-on technology skills to design and build robust data architecture Extensive experience in data modeling and database design At least 6+ years of hands-on experience in Spark/BigData Tech stack Stream processing engines Spark Structured Streaming/Flink Analytical processing on Big Data using Spark At least 6+ years of experience in Scala Hands-on administration, configuration management, monitoring, performance tuning of Spark workloads, Distributed platforms, and JVM based systems At least 2+ years of cloud deployment experience AWS | Azure | Google Cloud Platform At least 2+ product deployments of big data technologies Business Data Lake, NoSQL databases etc Awareness and decision making ability to choose among various big data, no sql, and analytics tools and technologies Should have experience in architecting and implementing domain centric big data solutions Ability to frame architectural decisions and provide technology leadership & direction Excellent problem solving, hands-on engineering, and communication skills .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.