Platform Engineer I

• You will impact millions of people all over the globe with your creative solutions

• You work in one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world

• You will solve exciting problems at scale by writing and deploying code across tens of thousands of servers

• Ensuring an “everything as code” mindset for yourself and your team

• You will have the opportunity to collaborate with many of the world’s leading SREs, SWEs and Platform Engineers

• You will be free to launch your own ideas and solutions within our sophisticated production environment

• Here are some of the tools and technologies we use to achieve this: Python, Go, Puppet, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, HAProxy, Cassandra, Kafka etc

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with the team to support the development of highly distributed, large scale platforms that have a major impact on developers at Booking;

• Deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end developer focused engineering experience to make common things simple and complex things possible;

• Embed operational resilience and service reliability directly into the development lifecycle

• Build effective monitoring to supervise the health of your system, and assist the on-call team to handle outages; Learn to troubleshoot system health issues under guidance

• Build and run capacity tests to manage the growth of your systems;

• Contribute to Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery (DR) planning into the full engineering lifecycle;

• Contribute to embedding security and privacy directly into service bootstrapping and delivery pipelines by automating controls and reducing manual decision points;

• Be an advocate of engineering standard processes;

• Participate in the on-call rotation to gain operational experience and exposure to production environments