Golang Job: Site Reliability Engineer

• This role can be based in either our Palma, Spain offices or Iasi, Romania

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Who are WebBeds?*
WebBeds is the fastest growing and most significant accommodation supplier to the travel industry. We are a global company offering ground services (hotels, transfers, tours, activities) to travel professionals. Our products help our partners and customers to create amazing Travel experiences.
Our Products range from a Retail Online platform, Integration Connectivity hub and distribution APIs to name but a few and our systems are 100% cloud hosted processing up to 5.0bn search requests daily. We deliver amazing outcomes using leading edge technology through innovative and creative thinking.
WebBeds is a subsidiary of Webjet Limited (ASX: WEB) – an ASX 200 listed company operating a global digital travel business.

What makes us stand out?

• We are a wholesale global travel organisation
• We have 1500+ people speaking 50+ languages in 120+ cites across 50+ countries
• We partner with over 430,000 properties in more than 15,000 destinations
• We work with more than 44,000 travel companies in 139 source markets
• We have an amazing Technology team focused on delivering valuable outcomes using innovative tech and creative & lateral thinking

What will you do on your journey with WebBeds?
WebBeds is the world’s fastest growing provider of accommodation distribution services to the travel industry. Our products incorporate distribution APIs, payment integrations, ERP integration, Data Lakes, User Interfaces, and others. Our search API reach peaks of more than 50.000 requests per second, each one consisting of tens or hundreds of hotels, with continued expansion. "We design, deliver and support innovative solutions through engagement, collaboration and a fearsome passion for creating customer value" is our mission as an IT organization.

With this in mind, we strive to be at the leading edge of technology when it comes to build the platform that meets the needs of our Supply partners and customers. This translates to the use of latest technology including .NET Core versions, Golang, Python, AWS, K8S, microservices architecture, clouds hosting and orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, Proactive monitoring, and alerting systems, to name a few.

Our delivery teams have the creativity and freedom to express themselves by building innovative solutions to often complex problems and are challenged to reach higher levels daily. Our teams consist of product owners, QA engineers, Software Engineers, and people from across the business all working collectively and collaboratively. We have a very strong technical team from which you will be able to learn, but are encouraged by new ideas and fresh thinking that you will bring with you.

How you will make an impact?
We are seeking an experienced and talented Site Reliability Engineer to join the WebBeds Engineering Team. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability & performance level to achieve their goals.

We are seeking someone with a real passion for travel, a passion for technology combined with great communication skills, technological insight & an eagerness to grow. We are looking for people that are not afraid to try new things and develop new technologies for an ever-changing scenario.
Elements to this role include, but not limited to:

• Work with legacy applications and have an appetite to help transform it into modern technology.
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market our software solutions.
• Measure and optimize system performance, pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and constantly innovating to improve.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple software applications.
• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Working closely with developers, especially when issues arise to help with troubleshooting and provide consultation & prevention.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives.
• Monitor critical applications and services to minimize downtime and ensure their availability.
• Cross team collaboration across the full IT department & wider business as required to align on systems support & processes.

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The skills we would love to see in your suitcase*

• Ideally around 3 years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer capacity.
• Code experience in one of the following languages Go, C, C++, Rust, Python (other languages will be considered based on experience).
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
• An eagerness to learn, develop & constantly improve with a flexible mindset & approach to technology.
• Core interest in the Travel industry, with a passion for technology and expertise in this area although Travel industry experience is not necessity.
• Knowledge around cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Azure.
• Experienced using the Linux operative system.
• Experienced using containers (Docker, containerd), Kubernetes and popular tools within the ecosystem like ArgoCD with proficiency in networking gateways, NAT, routing tables, firewalls etc.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or other highly technical, scientific discipline (Nice to have but not essential).

Why choose us as your next destination?
We are super proud of our dedicated team of friendly, energetic & passionate professionals. Our people are key to the success of our business & everybody at WebBeds has their own unique role to play as we continue to drive the company forward.

Over 50 different languages are spoken by our workforce, but whether working from offices in Dubai or London or out in the field in Johannesburg or Buenos Aires, we all share the common goal to take pride in what we do & to deliver our partners with unbeatable service & support.

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International highly skilled group of experts from all around the globe

• Dynamic environment with the chance to grow, influence & impact change
• Disruptive, fast-growing market leader within travel & endless possibilities
• Culture built on collaboration empowerment and innovation

Find out more about the WebBeds business at www.webbeds.com - #LI-Hybrid

Job Type: Full-time