Booking.com is looking for a database engineer to join the database team at our headquarters in Amsterdam, NL. Booking.com has one of the largest MySQL installations worldwide. The Database team at Booking.com supports 5000+ MySQL servers along with other database platforms in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment. You can play an important part in scaling our environment to support the immense growth of the business, automating day-to-day databases related activities and providing support to applications and development efforts.

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Booking.com offers responsibilities and freedom to do what is best for the company and our customers. We encourage you to take ownership as much as possible. You will be working together with smart and passionate database professionals and a very skilled development team. Your tasks and responsibilities include:

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Develop and improve internal deployment and orchestration tools;
  • Support the rapid development and deployment of internal software and systems by developing tools;
  • Develop and experiment with new scalability solutions;
  • Automate systems management of new and existing databases;
  • Troubleshoot and fix bugs alongside DBA’s, systems administrators and software developers;
  • Provide excellent service in response to commercial business requirements. You will have to provide knowledge and support to technical software developers.
  • Mastery at one or more programming languages, for example, Python, Perl, or Java.
  • Strong understanding of database products such as MySQL, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL or MariaDB;
  • Experience in automation and configuration management, preferably with tools such as Puppet or Chef;
  • Proficiency in Linux command line;
  • Strong interest and ability to analyze systems for scalability and reliability;
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills;
  • Good team communication skills;
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently;
  • A passion for providing excellent service to developers and external customers.