Data Engineer, Booking.com
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Leading travel accommodation and experiences marketplace
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Leading travel accommodation and experiences marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Booking.com's mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. They do so by offering a platform that connects every part of a trip – from a great place to stay to getting there, getting around, seeing the sights and sampling local life.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor degree or equivalent
- 1 - 3 years experience in similar role
- 1-3 years of experience with data at scale, using Kafka, Spark, Hadoop/YARN, MySQL, Airflow, Snowflake, S3 and Kubernetes
- Solid working experience working with Data engineering platforms involving PySpark, Python or other equivalent scripting languages
- Proven experience building data pipeline solutions based on public cloud providers such as Snowflake, AWS
What the job involves
- Data Engineers are responsible for the development, performance, quality, and scaling of Booking’s data pipelines, with a special focus on data quality.
- In this role, you will innovate and operationalize data pipelines in a modern cloud environment (e.g., AWS, Snowflake), automate workflows (Dagster-centric), manage infrastructure as code (Terraform), and establish robust, auditable CI/CD practices.
- You’ll partner closely with Data Engineering, FP&A Reporting and analytics teams to deliver timely, reliable, and secure data solutions critical for regulatory (SOx) and business reporting
- Rapidly developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance data pipelines
- Solving issues with data and data pipelines, prioritizing based on customer impact, and building solutions that prevent them from happening again (root cause)
- End-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines
- Experimenting with new tools and technologies to meet business requirements regarding performance, scaling, and data quality
- Providing tools that enhance Data Quality company wide
- Developing integrations between multiple applications and services, both on premise and in the cloud
- Contributing to self-organizing tools that help the analytics community discover data, assess quality, explore usage, and find peers with relevant expertise
- Building effective monitoring of data, and jumping in to handle outages
- Responsible for technical implementation and maintenance of data processing services and storage systems in line with the Data Governance Framework
- Lead root cause investigations, incident response, and postmortem documentation for reliability and process improvement
- Evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
- Describe the implications of changing an existing system or adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of the infrastructure and architecture of our systems
- Help grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standards
- Meet business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
- Find solutions to difficult or complex issues by applying different skills and techniques like analytical thinking, lateral thinking, and logical reasoning
- Constructively improve existing ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them in a critical yet constructive manner, initiating concrete improvements and articulating their rationale
- Identify opportunities for process, system and/or structural improvements, by applying an understanding of process flows and the methods that can be used to boost effectiveness and efficiency
- Own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
- Reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs
- Reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks
- Independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production
- Deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
- Achieve mutually agreeable solutions by staying adaptable, communicating ideas in clear coherent language and practicing active listening
- Ask relevant (follow-up) questions to properly engage with the speaker and really understand what they are saying, by applying listening and reflection techniques
Our take
Booking.com has established itself as a leading digital travel company. The company reaps the benefits of its status in the market and is currently in a stronger position than its up-and-coming competitors such as Expedia, Trivago and Trip.com. Airbnb represents the sharing economy and acts as a disruptive force in this market but still has ways to go to compete with Booking.com.
In recent years, there has been considerable growth in the number of travellers wishing to travel more sustainably. Booking.com is well positioned to attract these consumers, having introduced a Travel Sustainable badge on their platform which over 100,000 properties have achieved for their sustainability efforts.
The company was originally founded with a core focus on hotels, and the platform now offers more than 28 million accommodation listings. It has also expanded into different services, including flights, car rentals, and attractions.
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Company benefits
- Headspace Subscription
- Anniversary Leave
- Travel Credit
- Unlimited e-learning
- Booking Cares Volunteer Days
- Local Benefits: vary by country, but often include flex time, vacation days, health insurance, retirement savings, and much much more!
Company HQ
Grachtengordel-Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Glenn Fogel
(CEO)Previously Vice President at Morgan Stanley. They joined Booking Holdings in 2000 and have held several high profile and executive positions since. They are currently the President and CEO
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