AI engineer for enterprise applications

Booking.com makes it easier for everyone to experience the world through its products, partners, and people.

• Advise on business challenges and use AI tools to automate workflows and support data-driven decisions
• Collaborate with team members, product managers, and stakeholders, communicate clearly, and share AI methodologies and knowledge with the team
• Analyze information, identify issues, and develop solutions using logical and analytical thinking
• Identify and apply AI and automation opportunities to streamline workflows and improve team efficiency
• Share knowledge and methodologies, and support junior colleagues through coaching and mentoring
• Evaluate architecture options against cost, business, and technology requirements, including emerging AI-native technologies
• Describe system implications and design and defend adaptable solutions that meet current requirements
• Consider failure engineering, scaling, data storage and caching, security, and compliance standards
• Evaluate and improve system health using engineering best practices
• Resolve production issues, mitigate customer impact within SLA, and lead production incident response
• Contribute to incident tracking, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Triage, prioritize, troubleshoot, and monitor system performance using observability frameworks
• Secure production systems in line with company policies, standards, and industry practices
• Ensure compliance with SOx, PCI, PII, and GDPR requirements
• Document system architecture, write runbooks, and reduce single points of failure
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and apply backup and restore procedures

• Practical professional experience with AI technologies, including LLM-powered applications, AI coding assistants, AI-based search and knowledge tools, prompt and context engineering, and evaluating, configuring, and integrating AI-powered SaaS solutions
• Awareness of responsible AI use, data privacy, and governance frameworks
• Production software engineering experience, curiosity about AI, good judgment, resourcefulness, and communication skills to support safe adoption
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Java, SQL, or Python
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or 3–5 years of progressively responsible experience in the specialty as equivalent
• Growing understanding of Business Applications and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions in a large-scale organization
• Proactive, results-driven, analytical mindset and strong verbal and written communication skills; able to work primarily within team scope with occasional cross-team interaction

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave, including parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
• Up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
• Product discounts up to 1400 per year, automatic Genius Level 3 status, and Booking.com wallet credit
• This role does not come with Relocation Assistance
• Pre-employment screening may include employment history, education, and other information necessary to determine qualifications and suitability, as permitted by applicable law