Site Reliability Engineer II

Booking Holdings, Inc.; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Possibility to innovate through company programs

Excellent support for personal development

Mentorship programs

Great compensation package

Discounts to local shops

Job summary

Booking Holdings, Inc. is seeking an SRE in Amsterdam to tackle operational issues through coding and automation. This role involves designing systems to improve stability and scalability while addressing challenges in a large infrastructure.

Key responsibilities include solving production problems, developing deployment tools, and shaping engineering practices. The position offers various benefits, including a dynamic work environment and strong support for personal development.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend programming languages like Java, Python, GO, and NodeJS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Knowledge of Service Level Agreements and Objectives (SLA, SLO).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement systems software.
• Solve problems in production systems and build solutions.
• Develop tools for product development teams for deployment.

Skills

Problem-solving in programming languages

Building and maintaining distributed systems

Operations automation

Cloud computing knowledge

Linux administration

Interpersonal skills

Proficient in English

Tools

Kubernetes

Monitoring technologies (Prometheus, Grafana)

Job description

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.

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, on‑boarding, 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: Global Impact, Personal Relevance

• Possibility to live and work in Amsterdam
• 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.).

Inclusion: We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.