Software Engineer (Account Security)

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

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 & authorisation 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 & authorisation 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.


Role Qualifications and Requirements

3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
1+ 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:
Health insurance
Prepaid medical subscription (Regina Maria)
Life insurance
Meal vouchers (40 RON/ticket)
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 of 400 EUR net
Bookster
Linkedin learning platform
Headspace
Employee discounts (travel, gym, dental, vision)