Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Be part of the Get Your Guide  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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Get Your Guide  activities
• Language reimbursement program
• Health and wellness benefits

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• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Information Technology and Engineering
• Industries:
  Technology, Information and Internet, Travel Arrangements