Senior SRE — Global Remote/Hybrid, Kubernetes & AWS

GetYourGuide Global Services GmbH; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual growth budget

Work from anywhere 30 days/year

Hybrid: 3 days in-office, 2 days at‑h

Team events

Transport & fitness budget

Activity discounts

Language reimbursement

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

GetYourGuide Global Services GmbH is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and scale cloud-based infrastructure using Kubernetes and AWS. You will drive high availability, automation, and observability, while collaborating with teams to improve system design and reliability.

You should be proficient in Go or another major language, with strong Linux knowledge and English communication. The role offers a hybrid work setup with in-office collaboration and remote focus time.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and running containers at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Proficient in at least one programming language; Go preferred.
• Solid understanding of production systems, networking and container tech.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
• Excellent communication in English and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale cloud-based infrastructure, including Kubernetes clusters and AWS environment.
• Ensure high availability, autoscaling, and failure recovery for production systems.
• Develop custom controllers to automate cluster management.
• Leverage Istio and Envoy to manage service communication and observability.
• Drive initiatives toward better system design and adoption of new technologies.
• Participate in infrastructure on-call rotations and incident response.
• Support operations culture to deliver highly available services.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux basics

Go programming

Networking

Public cloud (AWS)

Monitoring

Team player

English communication

Tools

Istio

Envoy

CI/CD

AWS Console

Job description

GetYourGuide Global Services GmbH is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and scale cloud-based infrastructure using Kubernetes and AWS. You will drive high availability, automation, and observability, while collaborating with teams to improve system design and reliability.

You should be proficient in Go or another major language, with strong Linux knowledge and English communication. The role offers a hybrid work setup with in-office collaboration and remote focus time.