Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will operate our Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, and Redis services, automate processes, implement monitoring, and debug complex issues in a cloud-based environment.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a Site Reliability Engineer in our SRE Data Squad, you'll help keep trivago's data backbone running - 8 production Kafka clusters moving over 900K messages per second, plus our managed Flink, Cassandra, and Redis services.
- You will apply a software engineering mindset to operations, building the bridge between the two and turning reliability into a craft.
- You'll grow into a trusted voice on some of trivago's most demanding data systems, deepening your infrastructure expertise with real ownership, a clear path toward senior SRE work, and the stability to build a lasting career here.
- Join our on-call rotation for trivago's Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, and Redis services - a «X»-person rotation with «on-call compensation / time-off arrangement», so incident duty is shared and recovery time is protected.
- Run and operate our infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GKE and Compute Engine) and our on-premises datacenter (Rancher).
- 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 tooling where it genuinely helps.
- 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.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills in distributed, data-intensive systems - you move from first symptom to root cause across multiple services, and you're comfortable setting your own priorities, including under incident pressure.
- A genuine learning mindset - you approach challenges with curiosity, seek out feedback, and continuously look for ways to develop and grow.
- A performance mindset - you set ambitious goals for yourself and have the determination and resilience to follow through and achieve them.
- An open and curious mindset toward AI tools and automation - you actively explore how AI can support incident triage, runbook automation, and daily operations, and you're excited to grow alongside evolving technologies.
Experience
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, together with practical Kafka experience - the two technologies this squad works with every day.
- Experience running infrastructure in both cloud and on-premises environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GKE and Compute Engine) and Rancher; experience with Flink, Cassandra, Redis, or MySQL is a welcome bonus.
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What we offer
- trivago is a place where technical ambition meets genuine investment in your growth.
- We give engineers real agency over technical decisions.
- You will work in small, autonomous teams with direct access to production, where your decisions have measurable impact and your input actively shapes how we build.
- Beyond our campus library and free online courses, engineers get access to specialist technical meetups, internal guilds, architecture reviews, certifications, specialist tools, and hands-on experimentation time.
- We run a continuous deployment culture with short feedback loops.
- You will move from idea to production in days - with the autonomy, tooling, and trust to iterate quickly and own your outcomes end to end.
- We actively invest in AI tooling for developers - including coding assistants, AI-powered workflows, and dedicated experimentation time.
- We build it into how we work.
- This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.
- Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, choose from a variety of fitness options with our on-site gym, sports classes, and Urban Sports Club membership, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.
- You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and many company-wide events to build experiences together.
- We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, up to 2 work from home days weekly.
- Additionally, you can work remotely from a different location within Germany or selected countries abroad for up to 20 days per year.
- You also get free access to the Heycare platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.
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Benefits
Health, Fitness & Fun
Work-Life-Integration
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About Your Employer
trivago GmbH
The trivago Hotel Relations GmbH is an independent subsidiary of the trivago N.V., founded in 2017 in Düsseldorf. The company's goal is to help hoteliers around the world be successful online and generate more direct bookings by keeping up with the latest technology trends.
Description
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication, Hotel and Restaurant Industry, Tourism
Site Reliability Engineer
- Location
- Dusseldorf
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
