• When observing something as unreliable, cannot help but understand it and help to fix it
• Self-starter who is highly organised, communicative, and passionate about quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction
• Strong Object-Oriented design knowledge and development experience with 1 or more programming languages such as Java, Go or Python
• 3+ years’ software development experience working in a team environment
• Strong observability engineering experience and exposure to Prometheus, Grafana or SaaS-based monitoring platforms (DataDog preferred)
• Experience with data streaming and messaging service platforms (e.g. Kinesis, Kafka, SNS)
• Experience with datastore platforms and technologies (e.g. DynamoDb, Aurora, RDS, Cassandra, MongoDb)
• Experience with deploying onto containerisation and orchestration platforms (such as Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience with cloud platforms and services (AWS preferred)
• Strong communication skills (able to explain concepts to non-technical people as well as engineering peers)

Desirable

• As a Software Development Engineer II, you will be contributing to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of the world's largest online travel platform at scale within the Reliability Engineering organisation
• Backend development engineer with Platform Engineering experience working on building Reliability Engineering tools and services focusing on ​​Service Level Objectives Framework for Expedia, reporting data and standardisation with implementation of SLO Quality
• Contribute to technical design and documentation, functional analysis, implementation, and problem solving of mid-to-large sized reliability projects
• Develop and improving the quality of code and integrations in a continuously integrated environment
• Communicate and work effectively with geographically distributed multi-functional teams using agile methodologies
• Proactively monitor the health of applications owned by the team and address issues through effective troubleshooting and following through on details and drive issues to closure
• Promote good development methodologies via code review, software design reviews and knowledge sharing/tech talks within the group
• Resolve problems and technical blockers as they occur with peers and unblock junior members of the team
• Work with the technology and product managers to refine requirements and functional specifications, to be able to deliver products that satisfies customers’ needs