Job Description

Role Description:

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.



Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.



About the team: The Application Data Services department provides world-class database and streaming solutions, both on-premise and on public cloud, to our infrastructure and product development teams. We ensure secure, reliable, and scalable transport and storage of data for our business and infrastructure services. Our data services currently cover technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Confluent, and Elasticsearch. We are expanding this with complementary cloud database technologies. Within this department, the SQL Resilience team focuses on ensuring data reliability, availability, and recoverability across Booking's MySQL and AWS-based data estate. Our mission is to guarantee robust backup and restore mechanisms, standardized Disaster Recovery environments, and seamless integration with internal systems such as DQS, Integ SQL, and Archive SQL.



Role Description: As a Tech Product Manager for this role, you'll be responsible for defining and executing the strategy for a subset of products in our B.SQL Track.. This role sits in the critical area of Cloud & Database Services, overseeing both on-premise data platforms (e.g., MySQL, Cassandra) and cloud-native platform (e.g. Amazon RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB), as well as the suite of tooling, Infrastructure as code templates and services for security, scalability, compliance and governance on top of these platforms.


This role will be instrumental in driving Booking.com's data and modernization journey - enabling scalability, privacy, compliance, and governance while empowering teams to move faster and innovate with confidence. And you will play a pivotal role in enhancing Booking.com's data resilience posture - covering backup strategy, restore validation, and disaster recovery readiness - empowering teams to innovate without compromising business continuity or compliance.


Key Responsibilities

Set a long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for SQL Resilience and Recovery platforms, encompassing MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, and related services, with a focus on operational excellence, data durability, and recovery readiness. Drive cross-organizational alignment on resilience strategy and disaster recovery priorities, influencing senior stakeholders and engineering leaders across Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams. Partner closely with engineering teams to deliver scalable, automated, and verifiable backup, restore, and archival solutions that meet Booking's high standards for availability and data protection. Define and monitor success metrics such as RPO/RTO performance, restore reliability, and backup coverage, using data-driven insights to guide prioritization and investment decisions. Mentor and support other Product Managers and technical leads in adopting resilience-first design principles and best practices for database reliability. Champion the integration of Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery, and Archive SQL services into broader Booking.com data platforms, enabling teams to build confidently on a robust and recoverable data foundation. Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Compliance, and Cloud Platform teams to manage risk, optimize operational spend, and ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and retention policies.


Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

You have experience managing technical products, such as infrastructure services and/or internal tooling, both on Cloud and On-Premise You define vision and strategy based on real customer needs, basing decisions on facts rather than opinions You possess excellent communication skills and use them alongside data to manage a complex range of stakeholders and users You're self-motivated and able to navigate ambiguity and complexity at scale within a matrix organization You work closely with engineering teams to design and deliver your product roadmap You collaborate with other Product Managers at Booking to drive adoption of our services and ensure they deliver value to users You define criteria for successful integrations with other services and drive execution You work with cross-functional teams to drive business impact You value agile development processes and seek constant improvements


Role Qualifications and Requirements:

5+ years of product management experience delivering technical, platform, or infrastructure products, ideally in database, cloud, or data resilience domains. Proven ability to define a clear product vision and roadmap grounded in real customer needs and measurable outcomes. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders and build trusted relationships across teams and geographies. Demonstrated experience collaborating with engineering to design and deliver large-scale, reliable, and high-availability systems, both on Cloud (AWS) and On-Premise. Skilled at managing complexity and ambiguity in a matrix environment while driving alignment and business impact. Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to inform decisions, measure success, and prioritize effectively. Experience in end-to-end solution delivery, from discovery to implementation and adoption, with a focus on quality, resilience, and continuous improvement. Familiarity with MySQL, cloud database technologies (e.g. AWS RDS/Aurora), and disaster recovery or backup systems is a strong plus. Fluency in English, both spoken and written; Computer Science or related technical background is a plus.

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.



EEO Statement:



Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.



Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO

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