As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be working with stakeholders throughout the company to ensure we have high quality data to power our business in all departments. Decisions for every part of our business – from the frontend experience, performance marketing to partner products – are driven by petabytes of data via MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc. Your challenge will be to make sure we can utilize our data even more effectively to support business decisions and improve our products. Joining a multi-functional team of developers, designers, data scientists, and product owners, we invite you to help us crunch the data to ensure our place as the planet’s #1 accommodation site.
B.responsible
Being a Senior Data Engineer you are responsible for the development, performance, quality, and scaling of our data pipelines, with a special focus on data quality and streaming. You will work independently and will also be making technical decisions within a team.
Key aspects of the job include:
- Rapidly crafting and developing next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance data pipelines;
- Identifying and solving issues with data pipelines, prioritizing based on customer impact, and building solutions that prevent them from happening again (root cause);
- Having end-to-end ownership of data quality in our core datasets and data pipelines;
- Driving exploration of new tools and technologies to meet business requirements regarding performance, scaling, and data streaming;
- Building and providing tools that improve Data Quality company wide;
- Making integrations between multiple applications and services, both on premise and in the cloud;
- Providing self-organizing tools that help the analytics community discover data, assess quality, explore usage, and find peers with needed expertise;
- Defining and building effective monitoring of data, and jumping in to handle outages;
- Acting as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences;
- Mentoring, coaching and steering more junior colleagues across technical challenges;
- Supporting the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts.
B.skilled
Are you a data-driven engineer who enjoys solving problems, who initiates solutions and technical discussions? Do you believe that any challenge can be scaled with the right mindset and tools?
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the field, working with systems and data infrastructure at scale;
- Proficiency in 1 or more server side programming languages — preferably Scala, Java, Python, Perl, etc;
- Experience with crafting and building large scale data pipelines in distributed environments with technologies such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, HBase, MySQL, etc;
- Proven experience with SQL, HQL, CQL, etc;
- Hands on experience of developing in and working on the open source data technologies;
- Ability to drive and take the lead in projects from a technical perspective;
- Ability to understand and formulate meaningful business metrics;
- Good understanding of basic analytics and machine learning concepts;
- Preferably a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering;
- Excellent communication (written and spoken) and stakeholder management.
B.offered
- We are a performance-based company that offers career advancement and lucrative compensation, including bonuses and stock potential. We also offer what we call the “Booking Deal” with other competitive perks and benefits.
- This position is open to worldwide candidates and, in the case of relocation, we will assist you with a generous relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition to working and living in Amsterdam.
The hiring company Booking.com BV is the company behind Booking.com™, the market leading online accommodation reservation service in the world. Booking.com BV is looking for a Sr. Data Engineer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. All references to “Booking.com" refer to Booking.com BV.