Role Description: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 six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, Open Table and Rentalcars.com.

Account Security

Do you want to play a pivotal role in protecting Booking.com user accounts against evolving threats? Are you eager to harness the full potential of data analysis to stay ahead of the curve?
If your answer is yes, then join us in building a complex big data system that will ingest and enrich all necessary data streams across the security platform!
Our work will directly impact end users, contributing to the protection of their accounts, and ensuring a positive experience on Booking.com!

Role description

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Computer Science (or related field) degree and 1+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in 1 or more server-side programming languages - preferably Java, Python (optional), Perl (nice to have)
• Experience working with cloud environments (AWS, GCP)
• Strong algorithm and problem-solving skills
• Experience with crafting and building scalable and flexible distributed systems is a plus.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.
• Excellent English communication (written and spoken) skills.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Play an important role in building distributed software applications to enrich our analysis and machine learning models for prevention, detection, and remediation mechanisms.
• Focus on innovation to address complex technical issues associated with distributed systems.
• Own the solution end to end, from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring in production.
• Make us better as an organization by communicating your improvement ideas and proposals to partners beyond your team.

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.