She is Skyscanner’s most senior female engineer, but Myra Fulton’s career as she knows it almost didn’t happen — a last-minute decision to change her university course from hospitality to engineering set her on a completely different path to the one she’d intended. This International Women In Engineering Day, we…

As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day this week, we’re profiling female-identifying engineers across Skyscanner’s business. Here, Louise Reid tells us how she took the leap from retail to software engineering, what her day to day looks like, her advice for anyone looking to career change, and how the…

Andrew Phillips is VP of Engineering at Skyscanner, and joined the company as a grad back in 2009. He shares his career journey, the things he’s learned along the way and the best advice he’s received in making the big leaps to senior roles. Andrew, you were probably Skyscanner’s OG grad, back in 2009. How did that happen? I guess the story started years…

My experience of relocating with Skyscanner I started my career at Skyscanner at a potentially inauspicious time — right as the pandemic started to hit the UK, and just as I was moving 7,000 miles, from my home country of Argentina. I took on the role of Software Engineer in…

Mhairi McClair, Engineering Manager I wasn’t always an Engineering Manager: I spent years in a very hands-on engineering role and moving over to a manager role was a mix of intentional and a little accidental. I’d taken on a more customer-facing technical role on a client-facing project, visiting clients to…

Recently we welcomed Software Engineer Gryff Coates back to the Skyscanner fold, his second stint since joining as an intern. Here he explains what his role entails, why he decided to return to the organisation, and how he’s discovered culture is key to feeling you belong somewhere. Tell us a…

Hi there 👋, I am Glory Tan. In this post, I’m going to share my experience of my first 100 days at Skyscanner. From this, I hope this gives you a glimpse of the culture at Skyscanner and in the Engineering team. About me I joined as a Senior Security…

TL;DR Summary — We accidentally submitted an incorrect change to the templating of our infrastructure provisioning system. This deleted all of the microservices responsible for serving skyscanner.net and data to our mobile app from the underlying infrastructure across the entire globe, causing a four-hour outage. We’re really sorry for the…

Introduction Skyscanner engineering squads deploy thousands of production changes every day that interact with hundreds of services hosted on AWS. In total, we have over 6,000 CloudFormation stacks across 60 different AWS accounts! To deploy these changes with zero clicks, we have an automated pipeline for building, testing, deploying code, and…