Platform Engineer II

Booking Booking · Hospitality · Bangalore, India

This Platform Engineer II role focuses on building, designing, and owning software applications and systems end-to-end. Responsibilities include ensuring application quality, designing scalable architectures, managing production services, resolving technical incidents, reducing operational toil through automation, and improving monitoring and alerting. The role also involves critical thinking, continuous quality improvement, effective communication with stakeholders, and providing architectural guidance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Building software applicationsIs responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business areaIs responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessaryIs responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategyHas sufficient knowledge to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard librariesHas sufficient knowledge to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices
  2. Software Systems DesignHas sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologiesHas sufficient knowledge to 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 systemsHas sufficient knowledge to help grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standardsHas sufficient knowledge to meet business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements
  3. End to End System OwnershipHas sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violatedHas sufficient knowledge to 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 OpDocsHas sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworksIs responsible to independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in productionHas sufficient knowledge to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practises
  4. Technical Incident ManagementHas sufficient knowledge to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLAHas sufficient knowledge to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysisHas sufficient knowledge to keep track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and logging live issues
  5. Automation and toil reductionHas sufficient knowledge to ensure that infrastructure stays current by reducing technical debt, searching for bottlenecks and preparing for scalingHas sufficient knowledge to reduce cost of operations and maintenance by leveraging new technologies, automation, and partner with vendors to ensure we stay currentHas sufficient knowledge to reduce human labour by writing small software features that address availability, scalability, latency and efficiency

Skills

Required

  • Building Software Applications
  • Software System Design
  • End to End System Ownership
  • Technical Incident Management
  • Opera

Nice to have

  • Automation and toil reduction
  • Monitoring and Alerting improvements
  • Critical Thinking
  • Continuous Quality and Process Improvement
  • Effective Communication
  • Architectural Guidance