Job Description

:Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Platform EngineeringAt Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. Were 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.Were a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform - whenever and however its convenient for them.Platform EngineeringIn Platform Engineering the platform consists of 4 tracks, Data Centres, Fleet Management Tooling, Virtualization and Container Compute. The Platform Engineering super track owns collections of primary Tier 0 services. We strive for operational excellence and do not compromise on availability or performance on behalf of our customers.The Data Centre track owns the design, scale and operations of the internal data centre network. The Virtualization track leads the private cloud, configuration management, and data storage services. Within Container Compute we maintain a highly available, highly scalable, Kubernetes platform that drives much of our compute needs.Come join us!About being a SRE at Booking.comThe core premise for the Booking SRE lies in treating operational issues as a software problem. We code our way out of problems where operations are concerned addressing availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency challenges within the vast infrastructure here at Booking.

• You will impact millions of people all over the globe with your creative solutions
• You work in one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world
• You will solve exciting problems at scale by writing and deploying code across tens of thousands of servers
• You will have the opportunity to collaborate with many of the worlds leading SREs
• You will be free to launch your own ideas and solutions within our sophisticated production environment
• Here are some of the tools and technologies we use to achieve this: Python, Go, Puppet, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, HAProxy, Cassandra, Kafka etc

What youll be doing.

• 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;
• Solve problems occurring with our highly available production systems and build solutions and automation to prevent them from happening again;
• Build effective monitoring to supervise 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 standard processes;
• 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.

What youll bring.

• 8 years + Experience with building, operating and maintaining sophisticated and scalable systems and with operations automation;
• Solid experience in at least one programming language. We use Java, Python, Go, Ruby, Perl;
• 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;
• Supervising / observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch are a plus;
• Good interpersonal skills
• Proficient command of the English language, both written and spoken

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