Site Reliability Engineering Lead

As Site Reliability Engineering Lead, you guide a team of eight SREs and network engineers to secure, scale, and evolve trivago’s hybrid infrastructure. You shape the architecture across Google Cloud, data centers, and campus networks while balancing reliability, performance, and cost. You stay hands-on to tackle critical issues and drive automation, IaC, and blameless learning. You’ll mentor the team, align priorities with leadership, and enable product teams with self-service and clear interfaces.

• visa support
• relocation package
• flexible working hours
• work-from-home options
• learning opportunities and technical meetups
• on-site gym and campus facilities

• Define strategy and roadmap for hybrid infrastructure across GCP, data centers, and campus networks
• Review and shape architecture; contribute to automation and infrastructure as code
• Maintain security, availability, performance, and cost-efficiency with measurable reliability targets
• Enable product teams with self-service access, clear interfaces, and good documentation
• Foster an on-call culture with sustainable rotations and blameless postmortems
• Manage hardware lifecycle, vendors, contracts, and team budget across data center, network, and cloud
• Lead hiring, coaching, and career development to drive transformation
• Translate strategic objectives into team OKRs and ensure steady execution amid changing priorities

• Hands-on experience with cloud (preferably GCP) and on-prem data center and network infrastructure
• Proven ability to lead or mentor engineering teams in infrastructure, network, or platform engineering
• Adaptable leadership style; effective communication with engineers and executives
• Genuine learning mindset and continuous self-improvement
• Performance mindset with data-driven decisions around capacity, cost, and reliability
• Hands-on use of AI tools in workflows and experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD

• leadership and mentoring
• communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• curiosity and willingness to learn
• GCP and on-prem data center networking
• TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF
• IP fabric data center architecture