Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure

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.

You will:

• 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

Who you are:

• 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

How we set you up for success:

• Work on a product that helps create memorable travel experiences
• Smart, engaged co-workers
• Full remote position, work from anywhere permanently
• Invest in your development with an annual personal growth budget
• Become a part of our success with virtual stock options
• Support your loved ones with generous maternity and paternity leave policies
• GetYourGuide vouchers

We look forward to hearing from you

Unlock your full potential and join our mission to create unforgettable experiences for millions around the world. If you have the skills and passion for joining our team, we invite you to apply by submitting your CV/resume in English through the form below. Check out how we hire for tips and visibility into our process and check out life at GetYourGuide. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via jobs@getyourguide.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer

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