Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place.

Why this job’s a big deal?

As Priceline caters to the global market, enhancing performance of highly scalable, high performance web-based products continues to be a main focus. We strive to build infrastructure and eliminate manual work through automation. Practices such as limiting time spent on operational work and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work.

In this role you will get to:

• Spearhead software development and lead hands-on technical design, deploy, and optimize large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems 

• Improve, tune and perform operational efficiency within the Linux based infrastructure and production environment

• Actively participate in deploying and supporting applications on our private and public cloud environment

• Lead, mentor, and guide other SRE’s in best practices

• Manage and build thousands of servers and hundreds of applications in multiple geo locations 

• Collaborate with development teams to support the current environment as we transform into a cloud architecture and provide resources “as a service” to developers 

• Reduce manual intervention and turn-around time to solve for repetitive problems while automating and monitoring the health of Priceline.com website 

Who you are: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

• 8+ years of experience and 2+ years of experience in a lead role

• Proficiency in one or more of these scripting languages (Shell, Perl, Python & PowerShell scripting)

• Proven expert working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7/ CentOS

• Exceptional understanding of infrastructure scalability issues

• Expertise with large scale production systems and technologies (load balancing, monitoring, distributed system and configuration management. 

• Fluency with implementation and support of user-facing, large scale, tech stacks

• Proficient in  configuration management tools (Salt, Chef, Puppet/Ansible) 

• Demonstrated history of living the values important to priceline:  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable Integrity and Ethics

WE ARE PRICELINE.

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, fueled by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding – we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. 

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.  

We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!  

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies. Our sister companies include Booking, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. 

Priceline ensures equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.