Booking Holdings Romania - Senior Data Platform Engineer

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 five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. 

The Senior Data Platform Engineer is a fully independent technical contributor who owns complex data products end-to-end and shapes how the team builds, runs and operates them. Alongside building data pipelines and models on Snowflake, dbt and Dagster, the role drives the underlying platform - CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and the Dagster deployment in AWS.  

Working on cross-brand data, reporting and analytics for business areas such as Corporate FP & A, Treasury, Procurement, Market Intelligence and others, the Senior Data Platform Engineer raises the technical bar across the team, mentors mid-level engineers, and partners with the Product Managers and Business Analysts to translate business priorities into resilient, auditable and SOX-compliant data solutions.

CBAP (Cross Brands Analytics Platform) is moving into a formal SOX control environment, so the way he / she designs infrastructure, access and deployment paths has to be auditable by default - not retrofitted afterwards.

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

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Lead the design, delivery and scaling of robust data solutions for cross-brand data projects and the underlying infrastructure, having ownership on the data pipelines & models on Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, AWS and Terraform, including performance, cost, reliability and incident handling.

• Define, establish and promote engineering best practices across all brand integrations, setting up quality expectations, developing code frameworks and reporting standards.

• Acts as a strong Snowflake practitioner: performance tuning, warehouse sizing, clustering, RBAC, cost optimization and governance.

• Designs and improves CI/CD pipelines (Git-based) for dbt projects and infrastructure repositories, manages environments (DEV /DQS/ PROD) and codifies infrastructure changes via Terraform.

• Owns Terraform modules for the team's cloud footprint (storage, compute, IAM, networking); manages secrets, access patterns and least-privilege configurations.

• Writes high-quality, object-oriented Python for Dagster (assets, sensors, IO managers, resources) and for the team's operational tooling; sets patterns and reviews code from mid-level engineers.

• Identify cross-brand operational and data improvement opportunities; actively collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure the data solutions. are delivered on time, as per agreed scope.

• Support management team in identifying knowledge gaps, development areas and support with development of training plans for team members.

• Designs and operates data flows in line with Risk & Control requirements (auditability, lineage, access control, segregation of duties) and supports SOX-relevant reporting use cases.

• Perform other tasks required by the direct manager.

• Complies with health & safety regulations.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in cloud engineering and / or data engineering, or a closely related data-focused technical role.

• Strong foundational knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, scripting and database administration.

• Hands-on experience establishing and scaling data foundations using open-source orchestration and transformation frameworks (e.g. dbt, Dagster, Apache Airflow).

• Demonstrated ability to provide daily hands-on technical direction, mentorship and operational support to engineering team members.

• Proven track record of independently navigating, troubleshooting and resolving complex technical challenges with minimal supervision.

• Exceptional written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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.

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