Job Description

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Role Description
At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, and lines of code. We're the thrill of the first night in a new place, the excitement of the next morning, the friends you make, the journeys you take, the sights you see, and the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.
About the team:The Streaming track is responsible for the Booking.com Data Streaming infrastructure. This team is responsible for optimally 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. The Streaming Solutions team is a part of this track working on streaming data transfer automation. You will help us maintain our Apache Flink and AWS infrastructure, enable data modernization, and improve the internal customers experience
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
Design, develop and implement 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;
Take on 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 handle the growth of your systems;
Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multinational data centers;
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.
Role Qualifications and Requirements
Experience with building, operating and maintaining sophisticated and scalable systems;
Proven experience in at least one programming language. This team mainly works with Java.
Experience with building, operating and maintaining scalable distributed systems, and with operations automation;
Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies;
Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals;
Understanding of Service level agreements and objectives (SLOs);
Additional experience in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Networking, Security or Storage is desirable
Monitoring / observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Opensearch are a plus;
Good interpersonal skills
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

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