OpenTable

Data Engineer II (Restaurant AI CoPilot)

OpenTable$120K — $130K *
Hospitality & Recreation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of professional experience in data engineering principles and data architecture
  • Strong track record of building, testing, and maintaining production data systems
  • Proficient in Python, SQL, and at least one strongly typed language
  • Experience in developing scalable batch and streaming data pipelines
  • Effective collaboration skills in cross-functional environments with product and technical teams

Responsibilities

  • Design, test, deploy, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and govern production data services
  • Build data pipelines that deliver actionable insights to restaurant partners
  • Develop and maintain data integrations with external partners for business needs
  • Power analytics and ML workflows for sales, marketing, and AI initiatives
  • Monitor and optimize production systems to ensure performance and data integrity

Benefits

  • Generous paid vacation plus birthday time off
  • Flexible remote work options for up to 20 days per year
  • Company-paid therapy and Headspace subscription
  • Annual company-wide week off for recharging
  • Development funding for professional growth
  • Paid volunteer time and parental leave
  • Comprehensive health and dental insurance; life and disability insurance
  • Employee discounts on travel and participation in resource groups
Full Job Description
This hybrid role requires working in the office two days per week.

About this Role

As a Data Engineer on the Data Science team at OpenTable, you will design, build, and maintain robust data solutions that power diner features, partner integrations, and advanced AI initiatives. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Business Intelligence Analysts, Infrastructure SREs, and Product Engineers to deliver scalable data products. Joining a agile, high-impact team, you will leverage OpenTable's vast data ecosystem to drive key business decisions and enhance user experiences globally

Responsibilities
  • Design, test, deploy, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines to deliver reliable data to internal and external customers
  • Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Intelligence Analysts, SREs, and Product Engineers to architect and govern production data services
  • Build data pipelines providing actionable insights to restaurants regarding guest behaviour, revenue, and operational efficiency
  • Develop and maintain data integrations with external partners to support critical business partnerships and data exchange
  • Power diner analytics and machine learning work streams for Sales, Marketing, and AI initiatives, including generative AI content summarization
  • Monitor and optimize production systems to ensure high performance, data availability, and system integrity

Minimum Qualifications
  • Demonstrated professional experience in data engineering principles, data architecture, and software design
  • Proven track record of building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production data systems
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and at least one strongly typed language (such as Java)
  • Experience constructing scalable batch and streaming data pipelines
  • Experience working in cross-functional environments and collaborating with product and technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with data engineering stack components such as PySpark, Databricks, Snowflake, Airflow, Kubernetes, and AWS.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Benefits and Perks
  • Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
  • Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
  • Focus on mental health and well-being:
    • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
    • Company-paid subscription to Headspace
    • Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid volunteer time
  • Focus on your career growth:
    • Development Dollars
    • Leadership development
    • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
  • Travel Discounts
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • 20 days of paid time off
  • Private health and dental insurance
  • Life and Disability insurance

The best connections happen face-to-face, whether you're sitting down to dinner or having coffee with a coworker. That's why OpenTable has adopted a hybrid workplace model. This role aligns with that approach, with an expectation of coming into the office two days a week-giving employees the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration and flexibility.

The expected range of compensation for this position based in Toronto, Canada, including commission and/or bonuses is $120,000 - $130,000 CAD. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required.

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.

Work Environment & Flexibility

At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.

About OpenTable

OpenTable is an online restaurant-reservation service company. It provides online reservations at about 54,000 restaurants around the world seating some 30 million diners monthly. The company was founded in San Francisco, California in 1998. Reservations are free to end users; the company charges restaurants monthly and per-reservation fees for their use of the system. In addition to online reservations, OpenTable offers restaurant management software for table management, guest management, and reservation management. OpenTable went public on the NASDAQ in 2009, and in 2014 it was acquired by Priceline Group for $2.6 billion.
Learn more about OpenTable
Size
5,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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