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About Travix

Travix is one of the leading global online travel agencies, operating with four brands: CheapTickets, Vliegwinkel, BudgetAir and Flugladen. In 2020 we took our next step becoming part of the Trip.com Group family, one of the largest online travel companies in the world, consisting of Trip.com, Ctrip, Skyscanner, Make my Trip and Qunar. Travix currently operates in over 40 countries expanding in 5 continents, so a global mindset comes natural to us. Our purpose is ‘the next journey at your fingertips’ which goes for both our customers and employees. We bring together passionate people, global partners, and an innovative platform to deliver the best end-to-end booking experience for our customers.

Make your career at Travix

At Travix, everyone is welcome. Our global team has over 40 different nationalities and we embrace everyone’s authenticity. We have proven to grow people internally, we are proud of our passionate company culture and we love to dream big. Ever since our company was founded, our aim has been to create a work environment where people can thrive, be creative and ultimately build their own legacy within the company. More now than ever we are at a pivotal moment in our company’s existence: where we are preparing for when the world is ready to travel again. With cutting-edge technology, strong partnerships, a  strategic vision and the resources and stability of the Trip.com Group, we provide an international playground where our employees can truly impact the future of traveling. 

To accelerate this momentum, we're looking to grow our team. If you share the same values as we do, you are just as passionate and ready to build your own legacy, then there is plenty of room here at Travix. 

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Database Engineer member of the Systems Engineering team.
This team driving cloud initiatives and automation while ensure the reliability of the Travix platform
You will have an opportunity to contribute to the company database strategy, influence product teams, scale and maintain different types of storage to address the need for scale and reliability, acquire new skills by participating in projects of different complexity.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with product teams and DBA’s to ensure optimal database and storage architecture
• Drive modernisation and optimisation across our technical stack
• Build and own infrastructure that is secure, scalable and reliable
• Implement Infrastructure as a Code
• Participate in on-call rotation

What you bring to the table

• 4+ years in DevOps (SRE)
• Solid hands on experience with relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL
• Hands on experience with Database solutions offered by public Cloud Platforms (GCP CloudSQL, AWS RDS)
• Broad knowledge and general interest in working with different types of databases/storage systems: Redis, Elasticsearch, Varnish, Couchbase, BigQuery
• Comfortable running workloads in Kubernetes 
• Experience in scripting using Golang and/or Python
• Experience with Linux (performance tuning/optimisation)
• Able to document and communicate your work

It would be a big plus if you have a strong experience in one of following:

• ELK stack 
• Prometheus
• Helm
• Terraform
• Modern CI/CD tools 

 What you can expect

• Competitive salary and other amazing benefits, such as covered travel costs, discounted ongoing cancellation / travel insurances and a bike plan.
• 30,5 days of paid leave, so plenty of time to enjoy your global travel adventures!
• Many internal development courses to keep on learning and growing.
• An environment where you can keep a healthy work-life balance: even when we can go back to the office to collaborate as teams, you will still continue having a balance between working from home and from the office.
• Flat hierarchy where your voice can be heard, welcomed and appreciated at all levels in the organization. 
• A diverse, inclusive and multicultural working environment 
• Top floor office in Amsterdam (close to Central Station) with an amazing view!
• Free fruit, company bar (free beer), team drinks and company events.

Ready to start your own Travix journey?

Think you have what it takes?  Then, we would love to hear from you.