Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Change the way the world travels

Be part of the GetYourGuide journey and connect people with unforgettable travel experiences worldwide. Since 2009, millions of travelers have booked unique activities with us in over 12,000 cities. Our headquarters in Berlin is supported by 16 other local offices across the globe. 

Ready to join a diverse community of over 850 fellow explorers dedicated to revolutionizing the travel experience industry? Check out our careers site to learn more.

Team mission

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will be part of an empowered full remote  team that plays a key part in building, automating and enhancing our cloud and container-based infrastructure. We act as "engineers for the engineers" helping others understand and leverage the architecture and platform underlying their features. Our technology stack consists of AWS, Kubernetes and Istio. Our aim is to create a reliable platform for running our core services while enabling teams to move fast, take risks and experiment.

Your mission:

• Build and scale our cloud-based infrastructure including managing our Kubernetes clusters and AWS environment
• Ensure the high availability, autoscaling and failure recovery capabilities of production and pre-production systems
• Develop custom controllers to automate the management of clusters
• Leverage Istio and Envoy to manage service communication and provide network observability
• Actively drive initiatives towards better system design and implementation of new technologies
• Participate in infrastructure on-call rotations
• Champion our operations culture and help the engineering organization deliver highly available services for our customers

Your toolkit:

• Availability from 13:00 to 17:00 Central European Standard Time zone (Berlin/Zurich) every day for collaboration with the team
• Experience with Kubernetes and running containers at scale
• A good, low level understanding of the Linux operating system
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language. Our most used language is Go
• Good understanding of distributed systems, networking and container technology
• Sufficient grasp of public cloud environments like AWS
• Positive, proactive team player who is passionate about their craft and cares about helping the team deliver
• You care about monitoring and understanding the state of systems
• Problem solver with operations skills that can quickly diagnose and pinpoint issues in a production environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

What sets you apart:

• Led company wide initiatives to improve operational excellence
• Extended or contributed to open source components (mainly Kubernetes and Istio or similar tools in compute and networking domain) 
• Influenced infrastructure vision and roadmap at your previous experiences

We want your journey with us to be extraordinary

Here’s how you can expect us to commit to you and your growth.

• Annual personal growth budget and mentorship programs for continuous learning and development
• Work from anywhere in the world for 30 days per year
• A hybrid working approach with three days of in office collaboration (Mon, Tue, Thur) and two days of optional at home focus time.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Opportunities to collaborate and socialize with team members through quarterly team events and yearly company-wide events
• Monthly transportation and fitness budget
• Discounts for you, your friends, and family on GetYourGuide activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

And more…

How to apply

Submit your CV/resume in English using the form below. For tips and insights into our hiring process and culture, check out ‘how we hire’ and ‘life at GetYourGuide’. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at jobs@getyourguide.com.

We’re an equal opportunities employer

Our commitment is that every qualified person will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with your application. 

 

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