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At a high level, we own:\nThe Inventory & Availability Engine - a real-time system that computes bookable slots for restaurants based on capacity, constraints, table configuration, and reservation history\nCore reservation flows - inventory consumption, slot locking, and availability calculations\n The availability publishing pipeline - ensuring that when restaurants update their schedules, accurate availability propagates across all surfaces (diner-facing apps, in-house tools, partner APIs)\nOur Mission: Own and evolve the inventory and availability platform so that every reservation is backed by accurate, real-time capacity data - ensuring restaurants never get overbooked and diners always see truthful availability.\nThis team owns a mission-critical system for the company and works on complex backend systems where reliability and correctness are paramount.\nTeam Structure\nThe team includes engineers ranging from SE2 through Principal level, with a strong culture of code review, design docs, and collaborative problem-solving.\nWe own the entire software lifecycle for our services - we build, deploy, monitor, and operate them in production.\nTechnologies Used\n Primary language: C# / .NET (must have)\nInfrastructure: Kubernetes, Helm, TeamCity CI/CD\nObservability: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK\n Messaging: Kafka (event-driven architecture)\nDatabases: Redis, MongoDB\nSource Control: GitHub\nDay-to-Day Responsibilities\nAn engineer on this team will:\nDesign and implement backend features and services that support inventory, availability, and reservation flows\nWork across the full development lifecycle - from technical design and coding to testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support\nDebug production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and dashboards\nContribute to improving system reliability, correctness, and operational readiness\nPartner with Product, Design, and peer engineering teams to clarify requirements and make thoughtful technical tradeoffs\nParticipate in code reviews, technical discussions, and design documentation\nHelp maintain and evolve a complex distributed backend platform that sits in the critical path of the reservation experience\nThis posting is for an existing vacancy.\nBenefits and Perks\nWork from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year\nFocus on mental health and well-being:\nCompany-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth\nCompany-paid subscription to Headspace\nAnnual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)\nPaid parental leave\nGenerous paid vacation + time off for your birthday\nPaid volunteer time\nFocus on your career growth:\nDevelopment Dollars\nLeadership development\nAccess to thousands of on-demand e-learnings\nTravel Discounts\nEmployee Resource Groups\n20 days of paid time off\nPrivate health and dental insurance\nLife and Disability insurance\nThe best connections happen face-to-face, whether you’re sitting down to dinner or having coffee with a coworker. That’s why OpenTable has adopted a hybrid workplace model. This role aligns with that approach, with an expectation of coming into the office two days a week-giving employees the best of both worlds: in-person collaboration and flexibility.\nThe expected range of compensation for this position based in Toronto, Canada, including commission and/or bonuses, is $110,000-$130,000 CAD. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required.\nWe offer a competitive base salary and benefits including: health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave benefits. 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