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Hopper is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform & Cloud FinOps (100% Remote - Ireland)

Hopper is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for its Cloud FinOps team. You will manage a large Google Cloud infrastructure used by hundreds of engineers to serve millions of users globally, focusing on automation, optimization, and ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective.

What You'll Do

  • Work on projects to drive higher cost efficiency, such as reducing network egress costs and optimizing storage and autoscaling.
  • Improve current cost attribution to ensure all teams have clear visibility into their costs.
  • Participate in providing support to incidents and be part of on-call rotation for platform incidents.
  • Contribute to solving doubts and problems engineers face with infrastructure and approving PRs requiring Platform supervision.

What We're Looking For

  • A strong background in SRE, DevOps, Software Engineering or Systems engineering.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and system design skills with good analytical capabilities.
  • Good communication skills.
  • Knowledge of major cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud.
  • SQL knowledge.
  • Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, and related tooling like Kustomize and Helm.
  • Networking knowledge (DNS, TLS, certificates, ingresses).
  • Observability with log collection, metrics, APM, etc. preferably Datadog.
  • Security knowledge (IAM, RBAC, network security).
  • Knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies.
  • CI/CD experience.
  • Database technologies knowledge.
  • Competent in scripting with Bash and Python or other scripting languages.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Service Mesh, preferably with Istio.

Technical Stack

  • Google Cloud, SQL, Kubernetes, Kustomize, Helm, Istio, Datadog, Bash, Python

Team & Environment

You will join a small and highly efficient team of SREs within the Cloud FinOps team.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and pre-IPO equity packages.
  • Carrot Cash travel stipend.
  • Flexdesk All Access Pass & Work-from-home stipend.
  • Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
  • Open communication with management and company leadership.
  • Small, dynamic teams where you can have a massive impact.

Work Mode

This is a 100% remote position for candidates based in Ireland.

Hopper is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
Google CloudSQLKubernetesKustomizeHelmIstioDatadogBashPythonFinOpsSite Reliability EngineeringCloud Cost OptimizationInfrastructure as CodeObservability Google CloudSQLKubernetesKustomizeHelmIstioDatadogBashPythonFinOpsSite Reliability EngineeringCloud Cost OptimizationInfrastructure as CodeObservability
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Hopper
Hopper is a leading travel platform that powers its mobile app, website, and B2B business (HTS) using data and machine learning. It offers travel agency services and proprietary fintech products like Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance. Hopper serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally and partners with major brands like Capital One, Air Canada, and Uber through its HTS division to integrate fintech and travel inventory into their direct channels.
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Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago