Booking Holdings Romania - Cloud Engineer

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

The vision of Cloud Engineering is to provide the capabilities that enable the Booking.com tech community to build and manage world-leading cloud native applications for the online travel market and unlock Connected Trip.

Our mission is to provide the foundation, building blocks, training, security & compliance capabilities, cost management capabilities, enablement & operational support that allow all workloads to be built on one cloud platform in AWS. We will provide a platform and toolset that enables our customers to realize the speed and agility benefits of the AWS platform, providing access to a rich ecosystem of technology services spanning from infrastructure primitives to data and machine learning, to security, quantum computing prototyping, business applications and more.

We will provide great support for our customers through the journey for building on AWS, provide a frictionless onboarding experience that enables builders to build on day one, provide continuous support through our cloud enablement teams who will also continuously maintain and expand the library of building blocks available. We will ensure that public cloud is secure and compliant by default and available for workloads of all regulatory scopes. 

The Cloud Finop’s Engineering team will be heart and soul to that journey,  helping define and drive the adoption of Cloud in a cost conscious manner ensuring that teams get the most out of the AWS offering.  Driving technical solutions to empower teams while providing guardrails and expertise for technical designs.

A Cloud Engineer at Booking.com is responsible for executing and technically implementing the cloud environment. The Cloud Engineer assists teams in migrating their current public cloud setups from existing environments. This includes helping teams new to the cloud, building tools, capabilities, and services. In this role, the Cloud Engineer is heavily involved in FinOps, guiding teams on cost-efficient cloud engineering through right-sizing, optimal choices, and a mix of technical architecture and design.
Cloud Engineer is also deeply involved in architectural decisions and hands-on work with various programming languages across both infrastructure and some software. We understand that the quality of test automation is as important as production code and spend time refactoring both to ensure ease of change, enabling a sustainable pace of development. The Cloud Engineer is expected to collaborate with colleagues in other roles to design, prioritize, and implement technical tasks. Given the diverse technical skills and commercial knowledge required across different business units, Cloud Engineer handles various types of work, from product features to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling, or services. 

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Is responsible to build, maintain and release software applications by using multiple modern languages including at least one of the following; Java, Terraform, CDK, Golang, Node JS, Typescript or C# and applying knowledge of systems
• Maintaining, supporting and development of services using engineering tools appropriate for the business area such as: GitLab, Harness, CoDeploy, Cloudability, AWS API’s, Artifactory
• Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance and finops measures, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
• Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscape
• Is responsible to constructively evaluate and develop ideas, plans and solutions by reviewing them, objectively taking into account external knowledge, initiating 'SMART' improvements and articulating their rationale.
• Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience
• Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor Degree
• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience
• Proficient at building software applications
• Proficient in End to End System Ownership
• Experience in Software Systems Design
• Experience in Architectural Guidance
• Proficient in Technical Incident Management
• Proficient in Technical Leadership
• Proficient in effective Communication
• Proficient in continuous quality improvement
• Proficient in critical thinking

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.