Senior Cloud Engineer

We believe that we are better together and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor we want you to bring your unique We believe that we are better together and at Tripadvisor we welcome you for who you are. Our workplace is for everyone as is our people powered platform. At Tripadvisor we want you to bring your unique perspective and experiences so we can collectively revolutionize travel and together find the good out there.

We are looking for a Seniorlevel Engineer who is highly experienced with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) development integration and operation. This experience includes working with hightraffic production deployments using Amazon Web Services so they can join our worldclass engineering team responsible for powering the most critical features of our globally known web site and mobile applications operating across 43 markets and 22 languages servicing our 490 million monthly active users.

As a Cloud Engineer you will be at the junction of application operational and architectural engineering and design: utilizing a broad set of expertise and skills. You will work with application and operations engineers across the Hotels Engineering team and in addition internal platform teams in developing or integrating necessary tooling and monitoring to ensure that the teams can maintain target service level objectives and facilitate development within the teams services. You will play an active role in ongoing efforts to migrate existing onpremise services into AWS driving cloudfirst best practices. Most of all you will work with a team of exceptional software engineers writing and delivering highquality code.

What Youll Do:

• Write code: Ship code to production. Write code that will power production services handling requests from millions of users each day: optimizing operational tasks creating clientfocused features and delivering developer tooling to help you and the wider team work more efficiently.
• Direct System Design: Understand the underlying architecture upon which our systems run; leverage AWS opensource and proprietary 3rd party tools and services to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Empower Operational Excellence: Ensure adequate monitoring and observability to proactively identify and diagnose system degradations and potential problems.
• Platform Evolution: Anticipate plan and implement the steady workstream comprising maintenance tasks for the platform infrastructure.
• Facilitate Development: Reduce friction and improve reliability in development testing and deployment to production.
• Shape our Future: Help design and then execute on our technical roadmap. Work with other dedicated experienced engineers to migrate legacy monoliths and onpremises microservices to cloudfirst systems. Help define the foundation for future cloudfirst development within the organization.
• Practice Accountability: Participate in periodic oncall duties and ensure that incident root causes are identified debugged and resolved to prevent recurrence.

Skills & Experience:

• Enjoy a deep understanding of the technology stack from the application down to the networking layer.
• 8 years of experience in commercial software development and cloud operations experience
• Strong Java background including developing and debugging highlyconcurrent highthroughput systems
• Solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures algorithms and Object Oriented Software Design.
• Fluent understanding of AWS technologies (e.g. CDK Terraform EKS ECS RDS Dynamo)
• Strong experience with production Cloud deployments and integrated CI/CD pipelines development
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving performance issues at every layer of the stack
• Experience designing and building wellmodeled clientfocused RESTful APIs
• Experience with Kubernetes and Microservicesbased architecture
• Experience with datacentertocloud migrations a plus
• Experience with Apache Solr ElasticSearch or OpenSearch is a plus
• Experience with Kafka and/or Istio is a plus

What youll get:

Tripadvisor provides a unique global work environment that captures the speed innovation and excitement of a startup at a thriving growing and wellestablished industry brand. At Tripadvisor you will be part of a dynamic fun and energetic team where you can immediately make meaningful contributions.

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