Senior Site Reliability Engineer at GetYourGuide

About GetYourGuide

GetYourGuide is the globally leading marketplace for unforgettable travel experiences. Travelers use GetYourGuide to discover the best things to do in a destination. Since its founding in 2009, people from all over the world have booked more than 150 million tours, activities, and attraction tickets through GetYourGuide. Powered by a global team of over 800 travel experts and technologists, we are headquartered in Berlin and have 17 local offices around the world. Visit our careers website to learn more.

Team mission

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be part of an empowered full remote team that is key 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. We aim 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 production 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
• Written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to others in English
• 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

 

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 40 days per year
• 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.