Site Reliability Engineer

📋 Description

• Join our on-call rotation for trivago's Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, and Redis services
• Run and operate our infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GKE and Compute Engine) and our
• Build monitoring and observability for the applications and data services the team supports
• Document the actions you take and turn repetitive work into automation — including with AI-assisted
• Contribute to runbooks, technical documentation, and our engineering blog
• Debug issues across services and levels of the stack, and contribute to the team's issues and OKRs

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, together with practical Kafka experience
• Experience running infrastructure in both cloud and on-premises environments, ideally Google Cloud
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in distributed, data-intensive systems
• A genuine learning mindset — approach challenges with curiosity, seek out feedback, and
• A performance mindset — set ambitious goals and have the determination and resilience to achieve
• An open and curious mindset toward AI tools and automation

🎁 Benefits

• Self-determined vacation (minimum 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, up to 2 work from home
• Dedicated learning opportunities: campus library, free online courses, meetups, certifications
• Continuous deployment culture with short feedback loops
• AI-native engineering environment with coding assistants and experimentation time
• Personalized coaching through Nilo
• Daily canteen budget, complimentary snacks, on-site gym, sports classes, Urban Sports Club