Site Reliability Engineer - Application Data Services - Immediate Start

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Job Description

At Booking.com, our mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. And while that world might feel a little farther away right now, we’re busy preparing for when the world is ready to travel once more. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission.

Core Infrastructure 

Do you want to build software that impacts millions of customers around the world, tackling some of the world's most complex ecommerce challenges? We are looking for talented engineers to join our Core Infrastructure department in our Amsterdam HQ. 

In Core Infrastructure we design, build and operate all the technology that our Booking.com product development teams need in order to deliver great travel products to our customers.

Booking.com is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our Core Infrastructure team at our Amsterdam headquarters. As a member of one of the 30 infrastructure teams, you will be given the freedom to make meaningful and measurable improvements impacting millions of people. You will be working in one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world, deploying code on 10ks servers across multiple data centers around the world!

About the team: 

Application Data Services (ADS) - Core Platforms

ADS has the following SRE needs in these specific tracks:

MySQL

The MySQL track consists of three teams and it provides a performant, reliable, compliant and highly scalable relational database solution for the whole company on the scale of thousands of servers, through sophisticated proprietary automation.

The MySQL Database Engineering team is responsible for most of the automation that takes care of the server provisioning, deprovisioning, replication, self healing, durability, upgrading and patching of many thousands of MySQL servers. 

The MySQL Service Discovery team is responsible for the dynamic topology of our MySQL fleet including autoscaling, automatic switchovers and failovers, but also for the connectivity and discoverability of our databases.

The MySQL Tooling team is responsible for the backend developer experience, including the internal MySQL portal, schema management tooling, authentication and authorization with the related compliance workflows, that is any kind of automation and integration that makes developers’ life easier.

Data Infra 

DataInfra Track this is our Booking Data services, that provide to all booking teams/products reliable data storage and services, such as:

• DocumentSearch - a scalable and reliable search engine platform (ElasticSearch) with close to real time lookups, analytics and data discovery capabilities. You will help us maintain our Elastic Search Clusters across different environments(such as BareMetal, Private/Public Cloud), and work on automatization.
• NoSQL - NoSQL data storage (such as Cassandra, DynamoDB) is a key element to the Booking dev stack. You will be responsible for maintaining NoSQL Clusters, will work on improvements, automation, and a large number of different and exciting initiatives aimed to make NoSQL/Cassandra reliable, low latency service in the Booking.

Application Services - provide scalable common platform services to Booking Holdings in terms of images, messages and emails. 

• The Image Services - services for storing, updating, searching and serving images for Booking Holdings. You will have an opportunity to build different features to make the booking experience more amazing, and also to maintain existing data, being exposed to work with different tech stacks.
• The Messaging Transport - services for delivering SMS, Push Notifications and providing email templates for Booking Holdings. You will have an opportunity to bring your own perspective and experience to help to build new things, to maintain existing services and made the system more efficient and scalable
• The Email Infrastructure - service for delivering, receiving, routing Emails for Booking Holdings 

Streaming. WIP

The Streaming track is responsible for the Booking.com Data Streaming infrastructure, The team is responsible for reliably moving petabytes of data, which is at the core of Booking.com operation and enables services such as Security, Marketing, Machine Learning, Observability, Experimentation etc. You will help us maintain our Apache Kafka infrastructure, build the next generation of Streaming platform, automate and build tooling, enable data modernization, and improve the developer experience.

B.responsible

• Design, develop and implement systems software that improves the stability, scalability, availability and latency of the Booking.com products;
• Take ownership of one or more services and have the freedom to do what is best for our business and customers;
• Solve problems occurring with our highly available production systems and build solutions and automation to prevent them from happening again;
• Build effective monitoring to monitor the health of your system, and jump in to handle outages;
• Build and run capacity tests to manage the growth of your systems;
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multinational data centers;
• Develop tools to assist the product development teams with successfully deploying 1000s of change sets every day;
• Be an advocate of engineering best practices;
• Share the on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for incidents:
• Contribute to Booking.com's growth through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts.

B.skilled

• Solid experience in at least one programming language. We use Java, Python, Go, Ruby, Perl;
• Experience with building, operating and maintaining scalable distributed systems, and with operations automation; 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies;
• Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals;
• Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting;
• Understanding of Service level agreements and objectives;
• Additional experience in OpenStack, Kubernetes, Networking, Security or Storage is desirable;
• Monitoring / observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch are a plus; 
• Good interpersonal skills 
• Proficient command of the English language, both written and spoken

B.offered

We are a performance-based company that offers career advancement and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential. We also offer what we call the “Booking Deal” with other competitive perks and benefits. The Technology department has monthly hackathons, training and attends/speaks at global conferences.

This position is open to worldwide candidates and in the case of relocation, we will assist you with a generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in Amsterdam. We have successfully relocated 300+ Technology professionals to Amsterdam in the last year!

Pre- Employment Screening: I

Benefits of working as a Site Reliability Engineer - Application Data Services in Amsterdam:

● Learning opportunities
● Advancement opportunities
● Competitive salary