Principal Software Engineer - Cloud and Platform Ecosystems

Booking.com · Bangalore, India · Engineering

principal software engineering Platform Engineer tech_leadership · Posted May 5, 2026

About this role

Booking.com is hiring a principal-level Platform Engineer in the software engineering function based in Bangalore, India. The posting calls out experience with Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Python, Java.

Role
Platform Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Location
Bangalore, India
Department
Engineering
Posted
May 5, 2026

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Job description

from Booking.com careers

 

About Booking.com and the Cloud and Platform Ecosystems team

Our mission at Booking.com is to create transformative, innovative, and personalized travel experiences for millions of customers worldwide. To support this, we build and operate modern infrastructure platforms that empower developers with reliable, scalable, and easy-to-use compute services—both in our private data centers and in the cloud.

We are on a multi-year journey to modernize our infrastructure, drive cloud adoption, and continuously improve the developer experience at scale.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer in Bangalore to lead the architecture, technical strategy and evolution of multiple platforms, advocating software delivery best practices for our engineering teams, mentoring engineers and engaging with Booking’s global technical leadership community. The immediate scope of work for the right candidate includes the following topics:

  • Booking Kubernetes Service (BKS) - Our Kubernetes-powered container-as-a-service platform that runs seamlessly with Booking’s app and platform layers across both on premise servers and AWS, and currently hosts over 3000 services.

  • Virtualization - VMs are currently offered to engineers at Booking for operating production workloads, running development, test environments etc. via an OpenStack powered, on-prem IaaS offering, a homegrown libvirt based virtualization solution for on-premise workloads and via AWS EC2 in the public cloud. 

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