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. …

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! …

Hi there 👋, my name is Jean Rauwers. I am from Brazil and recently have joined Skyscanner as a Software Engineer 2. I wanted to share a bit about my experience over the past few months, including the hiring and onboarding processes here at Skyscanner. HIRING PROCESS My hiring process was very…

How can you create a set of shared beliefs that steers everyone in the right direction? In early April 2018, we launched Skyscanner’s first set of guiding principles for engineering, internally known as ‘Our Engineering Principles’. Today, this allows all of our engineers to follow a shared set of beliefs…

What has been your journey in tech so far? Initially, I had zero intention of becoming a software developer. I was a history and media studies major who happened to code as a hobby, making birthday cards for my friends in Flash with emo music and ActionScript and making websites on Tripod. It was in a media studies lab…