Senior Devops Engineer - Data Platform

OpenTable; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 137,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online reservation service is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to work on data infrastructure in a collaborative team. This remote role will transition to hybrid and requires expertise in SRE, MLOps, and various data technologies. Ideal candidates should have a strong foundation in Python and Kubernetes, supporting dynamic projects in the restaurant industry while benefiting from competitive perks and a global team culture.

Benefits

Generous paid vacation

Work from anywhere for up to 20 days per year

Company-paid therapy sessions

Access to on-demand e-learnings

Employee Resource Groups

Private health and dental insurance

Life and Disability insurance

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Site Reliability Engineering or MLOps focused on data.
• Knowledge of data engineering technologies.
• Experience with production systems and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Perform SRE and DevOps/MLOps with a focus on data infrastructure.
• Build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain production systems.
• Lead initiatives for highly available and secure systems.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps/MLOps

Data infrastructure

Kubernetes

Python

Tools

AWS

Terraform

PySpark

Databricks

Airflow

Job description

This will be a remote role to start, with plans to transition to hybrid in-office 2x/week located in downtown Toronto.

With millions of diners, 60,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion.

Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global team and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture.

The Role:

The Data Science team at OpenTable supports a wide range of initiatives targeting diners, restaurants, and internal stakeholders. The team works directly on product initiatives and also serves as a platform for other teams to build data products.

In this role, you will:

• Perform Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps/MLOps with a focus on data infrastructure
• Build, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain production systems
• Lead initiatives across on-premises and cloud infrastructure to deliver highly available, secure, well-governed systems
• Design, operate, and optimize Kubernetes platforms across on-premises clusters and AWS EKS (cluster lifecycle, networking, autoscaling, observability, and security)
• Drive maturity in DataOps and MLOps, enabling smooth deployments, robust monitoring, and rapid incident response
• Partner with SREs, data engineers, and ML teams to design and operate resilient data and ML platforms

As a Data Platform Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer - Data Platform you will work closely with Infrastructure SREs, Data Engineers, and the Machine Learning team to craft and deploy robust and well governed solutions. You will lead both on-premise and cloud based infrastructure, and be responsible for maturing our DataOps and MLOps across the organization.

• Proven experience with Site Reliability Engineering or MLOps with a focus on data infrastructure
• Knowledge of the technologies and principles of data engineering
• Experience building, testing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production systems
• Proficient in Python, at least one strongly typed language, and Kubernetes

Strong Preference

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator or similar experience.
• Machine Learning experience (particularly MLOps, LLM Evaluation / Monitoring)
• Familiarity with our stack (PySpark, Databricks, Airflow, Python, K8s, AWS)
• Track record of project leadership, cross-team collaboration, and coordination with Product Managers and other stakeholders
• Solid Terraform, container runtime, Linux, networking, and one scripting language (Go/Python/Bash).
• Hands-on with monitoring/alerting and incident management (PagerDuty/On-call).

Bonus

• Build: Flask, Gunicorn, Poetry, TeamCity, Spring, Maven

The Data Engineering team at OpenTable has two opposing challenges which manifest themselves as opportunities:

• OpenTable is the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, seating more than 25 million diners per month via online bookings across approximately 60,000 restaurants. It has a massive wealth of diner and restaurant data going back over 20 years.
• OpenTable fields a lean team, with just over 1,000 employees globally. The Data Science team is currently 17 people, but striving to grow.

As a member of the team, you will benefit from these factors because your projects will have sufficient data and usage to be interesting and have a meaningful impact, and you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting projects across the company. However, you will be forced to think critically and ruthlessly prioritize, since the team has finite bandwidth. If these challenges sound interesting, then we look forward to hearing from you!

Benefits and Perks:

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to Headspace
• Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Paid parental leave
• Focus on your career growth:
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• Private health and dental insurance
• Life and Disability insurance

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this Toronto, Canada based role is $137,000-$142,000 CAD.

We offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus and equity grant.

At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.

Inclusion

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.

If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.

Inclusive language and accessibility are important to us. This description is aligned with OpenTable values.