Site Reliability Engineer at trivago
Germany
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on-site · full-time · Visa sponsorship
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Responsibilities:
- Operate and support critical data infrastructure: Kafka clusters, Flink, Cassandra, Redis, and related services across GCP (GKE, Compute Engine) and on-prem (Rancher).
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation to manage incidents and ensure rapid recovery.
- Build and maintain monitoring, observability, and runbooks for the services the squad supports.
- Automate repetitive operational work and turn documented actions into reliable tooling (including selective AI-assisted automation where helpful).
- Debug cross-service incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and contribute to OKRs and reliability improvements.
- Produce clear technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-sharing posts.
Requirements:
- Hands‑on experience operating Kubernetes in production and practical Kafka experience.
- Experience running infrastructure in cloud and on-premises environments (preferably GCP GKE/Compute Engine and Rancher).
- Familiarity with Flink, Cassandra, Redis, and MySQL or similar distributed data systems is a strong plus.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across distributed, data‑intensive systems; ability to work under incident pressure.
- A proactive mindset toward automation, documentation, and continuous improvement; readiness to contribute to on-call duties.