Booking Holdings Romania - Software Engineer (Account Security)

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, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

Role description

Do you want to learn & influence how we protect and secure accounts at a large scale at Booking.com? Are you interested in helping build the next generation of machine learning capabilities to detect, prevent & remediate account takeovers, credential stuffing, fake accounts and phishing related attacks? Do you want to build, own and deploy scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems?

Booking.com's Account Security area is seeking a passionate, experienced software developer who wants to protect the world's largest travel platform against attacks to its account & authorization system. Your skills will be the foundation of security initiatives that protect the security and privacy of all our customers, partners, and employees.

The Account Security organization makes security effortless for our different authentication & authorization platforms. As part of this team, you will be performing security engineering, building advanced and smart detective and preventive controls, developing systems to automate, remediate and advise product and infrastructure teams on how to keep our accounts ecosystem safe.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Rapidly develop next-generation scalable, flexible, and high-performance systems
• Represent Booking.com values, both within the company and in the external community
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multiple data centers
• Advocate for a collaborative working environment - turn "my ideas" into "our ideas"
• Solve issues with on-site and internal systems, prioritizing based on customer impact
• Act as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Participating in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Apply good engineering and security practices for the systems you build
• Owning the end to end software development lifecycle like automated software testing, continuous deployment, release management.
• Contribute to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Background in software engineering
• 3+ years of Java development experience
• Experience with frameworks such as; Spring, DropWizard or JEE is preferred
• Good grip on the JVM internals is a nice to have
• Experience with debugging and troubleshooting Java services is a nice to have
• Experience with other languages like Go, Python, Clojure etc is a plus
• Experience working with Distributed Service Oriented Architecture patterns
• Demonstrable experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
• Experience working with NoSQL databases like Cassandra, HBase etc.
• Experience with design, development, testing, and monitoring of large-scale and data-intensive systems is a good addition
• Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage
• Nice to have: Information security knowledge and more specifically knowledge of CIAM - cloud identity management experience
• Experience working with and knowledge of Account Security domain and associated problems like Credential Stuffing, Fake Accounts, Accounts Takeover is a huge plus
• Nice to have: experience developing cloud based fraud prevention and authentication applications
• You have a 'can do' attitude and you act proactively and not reactively
• Excellent English communication (written and spoken)
• Preferably a university degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Software Engineering

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned company and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working at Booking

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.

Pre-Employment Screening:

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Pre-Employment Screening:

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.