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Site Reliability Engineer I

booking.com, City of Westminster

Site Reliability Engineer I

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booking.com, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 8 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 6ad1dd653ff84ae3b7230f11bab322a7

Full Job Description

  • 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 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 optimally 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., 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, flexibility and benefits. The Technology department has monthly hackathons, training and attends/speaks at global conferences.
    • We value Diversity of all types and in an open, multifaceted workplace. This has been a pillar at Booking.com since day one, and something we continue to strongly believe in and build today.

  • 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;
  • Proven 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

    At 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. 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.
    • We're 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 it's convenient for them. API Gateway Team As we create a Booking.com API ecosystem with more decoupled services, we will standardize and simplify the API publishing and consumption model so our developers can deliver services faster and more easily. The API gateway platform for private and public cloud applications simplifies the architecture for creating, securing, and operating API driven services. About being a SRE at Booking.com 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. As a member of one of the 6 Developer Experience teams, you will be given the freedom to make relevant and measurable improvements impacting millions of people. You will be working in one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world, driving development for a whole tech organization of over 2.5k people!, Booking.com is the planet's #1 accommodation site. Our humble, talented staff of over 10,000 drives us forward every day. We love travel, and we work hard every day to make it easier to book great accommodations in more than 200 destinations. Since its foundation in 1996, Booking.com has been one of the travel sector's best-kept secrets. Today we've got some serious numbers to our name: with over a billion guest nights booked and counting, 950,000 room nights booked every 24 hours, 42 languages available and 21 million bookable rooms. We attribute our success to never losing sight of our customer's needs and remaining true to our mission: to help leisure and business travellers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy the world's best places to stay. At Booking.com, the customer is at the center of everything we do. We aim to produce the best possible customer experience, with the greatest selection of accommodation options, the smoothest, most intuitive process, and the greatest customer service. Our customer service team goes above and beyond to make our customers experience the delight of right. We WOW our customers with our top notch personal service in more than 40 languages and we are always looking for new faces to join our team. If you are a born problem-solver with smart and fast solutions in the heat of the moment and you have a passion for friendly service, come help us provide the best in class service to every customer and accommodation involved in the Booking.com experience.