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Senior JAVA Software Engineer (Chaos Engineering)
BOOKING HOLDINGS ROMANIA S.R.L.
1 position
Job - pending verification

Ideal Candidate

  • Minimum of 5 years software development experience.
  • Strong working knowledge and experience with one or more server-side programming languages (Java would be a plus)
  • Experience building interactive front-end web UIs with HTML, CSS and modern web development frameworks, like React.
  • Experience with distributed systems and solid understanding of Service Oriented Architecture, Microservices, Event Driven Architectures, High Availability systems and infrastructure
  • Experience in designing software architectures in complex scalable environments
  • Previous experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar
  • Excellent communication; written and spoken and experience working with non-technical stakeholders
  • Own design, delivery, and production operations for complex services/features, work with ambiguity
  • Experience of working on products that impact a large customer base is an advantage
  • Coaches other less experienced team members

Job Description

We are part of the Core Platforms - Technical Operations department and our main focus is to equip other Booking.com engineering teams with the tools and platforms in order to deliver fast, reliable and state of the art services to our customers. Our focus is mainly on enabling reliability through the delivery of Chaos Engineering solutions that can automate and enable teams to measure, explore and deliver better, more reliable software.

The technology stack of the platform and tools used within the team are: Java (Spring Boot), Python, MySQL, AWS RDS, React / TypeScript, Event Driven architecture, Kubernetes, Gitlab & Harness (CI/CD), Terraform and more.
The platform will integrate with a broad range of architecture types and platforms so you will also be exposed to technologies: Kafka streams clusters, Redis, Cassandra, AWS, Serverless and more.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
  • Designing and building software applications using APIs and microservices designs by using relevant development languages
  • Owning a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
  • Identify and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLA
  • Evaluating possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
  • Identifying opportunities for process, system and structural improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process flows, methods and standards
  • Identifying potential solution to address proactively improving reliability of company services by designing
  • Drive and implement solutions for automations or new functionalities in the reliability tools that can proactively prevent incidents or improve the overall reliability of systems at scale
  • Delivering clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience

Benefits:
  • Health insurance
  • Prepaid medical subscription (Regina Maria)
  • Life insurance
  • Meal vouchers
  • Learning wallet
  • Travel benefit
  • Annual vacation leave of 25 business days, pro rata with the working period
  • Birthday day off
  • Summer break (short Fridays during summer)
  • Work from Abroad program (up to 20 days/year in EU)
  • Floating days off
  • 2 Volunteer days/ year
  • Home office one-time bonus
  • Bookster
  • Linkedin learning platform
  • Headspace
  • Employee discounts (travel, gym, dental, vision)

Company Description

Booking Holdings Center of Excellence is part of Booking Holdings, the world's leading provider of online travel and related services, with a rich heritage of digital innovation. The Center provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, supports projects powered by new and emerging technologies, leverages industry best practices, and fosters collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands, including Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

If you are interested to find out more about the Booking Holdings Center of Excellence visit our website: www.bookingholdings-coe.com.

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world’s leading provider of online travel and related services, provided to consumers and local partners in more than 220 countries and territories through five primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

Published May 8, 2026Updated May 8, 2026Expires Jun 7, 2026
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