Engineering Manager- Site Reliability

Role Description:

About the team: The MySQL track, comprising three teams across the Netherlands and UK, provides a performant, reliable, compliant, and highly scalable relational database solution for the entire company, managing thousands of servers through sophisticated proprietary automation. In addition to platform operation, the MySQL track is responsible for enabling teams to migrate and consume diverse managed cloud databases conveniently and compliantly. To accelerate cloud adoption, enhance system resilience, and incorporate best practices, data governance, and compliance requirements, these teams are being expanded with new teams in Bangalore.

Role Description: This role entails building and leading a new Bangalore team, designed to integrate symmetrically with the existing Amsterdam teams. Similar to the established teams, the new team will be responsible for the ownership and operation of existing features, while also developing new features and capabilities. These features will be supported by our proprietary platform and will enable Booking application teams to leverage cloud managed services, thereby allowing them to concentrate on innovation.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

People Leadership

• Directly manage engineers

• Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating

• Nurture, grow and develop engineering talent in the team

• Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com teams and roles and celebrates unified success

• Respect the Booking.com values and use them as a guide to the way we work

Technology, Craft & Delivery

• Experience in designing and architecting APIs, dealing with high traffic

• Experience in large scale data processing and workflow management

• Mastery in technology leadership

• Engineering delivery, quality and practices within own team

• Delivery of the wider engineering strategic objectives

• Embed agile ways of working and company values within the team

• Ability to get into the technical detail (where required) to coach, support and mentor the team

• Adhere to the default principles for architecture, quality and non-functional requirements

• Contribute to the evolution of best practices across the department

• Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations

• Learn new technologies and keep abreast of existing technologies to be able to share learnings and apply these to a variety of projects when needed

Architecture & Product Strategy

• Define, shape and deliver the roadmap

• Build new products, processes and operational plans

• Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features

• Drive innovation in the team

• Own the architecture across the team

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in software development preferably with Python, Go.

• At least 3 years of experience leading and managing a team of engineers in a fast-paced and complex environment

• Experience with operating Relational Databases and MySQL is a plus

• Experience working with public cloud providers such as AWS

• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform is a plus

• Experience working with Kubernetes and Docker

• Ability to manage multiple teams is a plus

• A deep understanding of software development in a team, and a track record of developing and shipping software

• Strong technical skills (Coding & System design) with ability to get hands-on with your team if needed

• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management experience, good commercial awareness and technical vision

• You have driven successful technical, business and people related initiatives that improved productivity, performance and quality

• You are a humble and thoughtful technology leader, you lead by example and gain your teammates’ respect through actions, not the title

• Analytical skills and data-driven mindset