Platform Engineer

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties :

The core premise of the Booking Platform Engineer role is to design, build, and maintain internal platforms that provide developers with self-service tools and automation for deploying and running software efficiently and reliably.

The role focuses on addressing availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency challenges across a large-scale infrastructure environment.

• Impact millions of people globally through creative and scalable solutions.
• Work with one of the world's largest e-commerce companies.
• Solve complex problems at scale by writing and deploying code across tens of thousands of servers.
• Follow an "Everything as Code" mindset.
• Collaborate with leading SREs, Software Engineers, and Platform Engineers.
• Develop and implement innovative solutions within a sophisticated production environment.
• Work with technologies such as Python, Go, Puppet, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, HAProxy, Cassandra, and Kafka.

What You'll Be Doing :

• Design, develop, and implement highly distributed, large-scale platforms.
• Deliver an integrated, end-to-end developer-focused engineering experience.
• Make common tasks simple and complex tasks possible through automation and platform solutions.
• Embed operational resilience and service reliability into the development lifecycle.
• Build effective monitoring solutions to supervise system health and respond to outages.
• Build and execute capacity tests to manage system growth.
• Incorporate Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery (DR) planning into the engineering lifecycle.
• Integrate security and privacy into service bootstrapping and delivery pipelines by automating controls.
• Advocate engineering standards and best practices.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and act as an escalation contact for incidents.
• Contribute to hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and other recruitment activities.

What You'll Bring :

• 7 - 9 years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering within the technology sector.
• Strong experience building, operating, and maintaining sophisticated and scalable systems.
• Solid experience in at least one programming language such as Go, Python, Java, Ruby, or Perl.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies.
• Good understanding of cloud computing fundamentals.
• Strong foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Networking, Security, or Storage is desirable.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, and Elasticsearch is a plus.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proficient command of English, both written and spoken