Site Reliability Engineering - IC - E

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

The 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 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 handle 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;
• Share the on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for incidents (depending on level of role)

What youll bring:

• Solid experience in at least one programming language.
• 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