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GetYourGuide is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Infrastructure team in Zurich. You will be part of an empowered team responsible for building, automating, and enhancing the company's cloud and container-based infrastructure. The team acts as "engineers for the engineers," helping other teams understand and leverage the architecture and platform underlying their features.
Key responsibilities include:
- Building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure, including managing Kubernetes clusters and AWS environments
- Ensuring high availability, autoscaling, and failure recovery capabilities of production and pre-production systems
- Developing custom controllers to automate cluster management
- Leveraging Istio and Envoy to manage service communication and provide network observability
- Driving initiatives toward better system design and implementation of new technologies
- Participating in infrastructure on-call rotations
- Championing operations culture and helping the engineering organization deliver highly available services
The technology stack includes AWS, Kubernetes, and Istio. You will work in a hybrid model with three days of in-office collaboration (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) and two days of optional at-home focus time. The company offers work-from-anywhere flexibility for 30 days per year.
Requirements:
- Experience with Kubernetes and running containers at scale
- Low-level understanding of the Linux operating system
- Strong coding skills in at least one programming language (Go is most commonly used)
- Good understanding of production systems, networking, and container technology
- Sufficient grasp of public cloud environments like AWS
- Positive, proactive team player passionate about their craft
- Written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain technical concepts clearly in English
- Care about monitoring and understanding system state
- Problem-solving skills with operations experience to diagnose and pinpoint production issues
- Pragmatic use of AI tools to automate routine tasks while applying sound engineering judgment
