At Booking.com, the business problem is to engineer the automation behind Data Governance and Compliance ecosystem, building scalable solutions to discover and classify assets, enforce data protection policies, and provide real-time visibility into the company's risk posture.
Requirements
- Engineering Foundation: 3+ years of experience in software development in Java, NodeJS and/or Python, with a strong focus on backend systems, data engineering, or platform engineering.
- Data Governance Knowledge: Familiarity with concepts like data catalogs, lineage, classification, GDPR/CCPA, or PII protection is a strong plus.
- Automation Mindset: Demonstrated experience building tools that automate manual workflows (e.g., policy enforcement, data tagging) rather than just maintaining existing pipelines.
- System Design: Experience designing distributed systems that are observable, reliable, and capable of scanning/processing large volumes of metadata across diverse assets (Services, ML models, AI).
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to translate complex legal or compliance requirements (from Legal/Risk teams) into technical specifications and scalable software solutions.
- Experience with Java, NodeJS and/or Python
- Experience with data engineering, or platform engineering
Responsibilities
- Engineer Governance Automation: Develop scalable services that automatically classify data and ML assets, reducing the manual burden on data stewards.
- Enhance Data Discovery: Build and maintain high-performance metadata registries that ensure all data assets and services are easily discoverable and up-to-date.
- Implement 'Policy as Code': Design distinct mechanisms to monitor and programmatically enforce data protection policies across the entire engineering organization.
- Drive Risk Visibility: Create APIs and dashboards that aggregate complex governance data into clear, actionable insights for Legal, Privacy, and Risk stakeholders.
- Take initiative to address the larger technical needs of the product you work on and always keep the customer at the center of everything you do.
- Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions.
- Act as an intermediary for problems, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Other
- Ability to collaborate closely with Privacy teams in our department and across the wider business
- Ability to represent Booking.com values, both within the company and in the external community
- Contribute to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
- Advocate for best engineering practices within the team
- Let us know if you require accommodation to meet the essential functions of this job
