Site Reliability Engineer II

Booking.com; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Possibility to live and work in Amsterdam

International and diverse company culture

Support for personal development through online platforms

Mentorship programs

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Booking.com in Amsterdam is looking for a talented Site Reliability Engineer to improve the stability and scalability of their products. The role requires solving operational issues as software problems and building effective systems for monitoring and capacity.

Candidates should have experience with backend programming, scalable distributed systems, and strong skills in Java and Python. The position offers a competitive compensation package and excellent personal development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in solving algorithmic problems in backend programming languages.
• Experience with scalable distributed systems and operations automation.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement systems software to improve stability and scalability.
• Take ownership of services and solve production system problems.
• Build effective monitoring to handle outages.

Skills

Java

Python

Grafana

Prometheus

AWS

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Job description

Overview

We are looking for talented Site Reliability Engineers to join our Amsterdam HQ. The role focuses on treating operational issues as software problems, coding solutions for availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency challenges within Booking's vast infrastructure.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• 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;
• Be an advocate of engineering best practices;
• Share the on‑call rotation and be a critical contact for incidents;
• Contribute to Booking.com's growth through interviewing, onboarding, or other recruitment efforts.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Proven experience in solving algorithmic problems in at least one backend programming language (Java, Python, Go, NodeJS, etc.);
• Experience with building, operating and maintaining scalable distributed systems, and with operations automation;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies;
• Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals;
• Validated foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting;
• Understanding of Service Level Agreements and objectives (SLA, SLO);
• Experience in Open Source Infrastructure Management/Orchestration tools like Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc. is a nice to have;
• Experience in Monitoring / observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch;
• Experience in Networking, Security or Storage is a plus;
• Good interpersonal skills;
• Proficient command of the English language, both written and spoken.

Benefits & Perks

• Possibility to live and work in Amsterdam, named as the best city in the World for living a happy and healthy life;
• International and diverse company culture;
• Possibility to innovate through multiple company programs (e.g. Hackathon, twice a year);
• Opportunity to work in an Agile, startup‑like development environment;
• Excellent support for personal development through online platforms;
• Mentorship programs to accelerate skills growth;
• Contribute to the company tech transformational journey toward a more modern tech stack;
• Inclusive leadership, valuing the opinion of everyone independently of their career level;
• Great compensation package;
• Multiple perks that will make your life easier (e.g. discounts to local shops, discounted gym membership, etc.)

Key Skills

• Java
• Python
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• AWS