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Cloud Software Engineer
As a Cloud Engineer in the Source team, you'll shape the future of trivago' s main product to help millions of travellers to find their ideal hotel. You'll join one of our agile engineering teams of smart, motivated and curious people and work on our GCP platform to deliver the best and most relevant data to our millions of users and other trivago teams by utilising modern technologies and paradigms like serverless architecture, data batch processing, stream processing and many more.
The Source team's mission is to be provide high quality content and associated deductions that empower trivago users. This means you'll have an opportunity to work on such challenging topics as collecting data from various sources, matching partner data to trivago inventory, consolidating information into single source of truth, building inferences using this data and delivering it to our consumers.
What you'll do:
- Be a part of trivago' s Source team and proactively contribute to a product that is used by millions of people each day.
- Craft and build scalable applications for our data platform on GCP that can handle billions of events, using technologies like Cloud Functions, Apache Beam, Pub/Sub and Kubernetes.
- Take ownership and contribute your own ideas on how to bring the best and most relevant data to our users so they can make a profound decision on their next hotel booking.
- Work closely with stakeholders and other teams to map business requirements into technical solutions that have a real impact.
- Be a technology ambassador spread the word, and share knowledge among your fellow colleagues in peer exchanges, guild meetings and meet-ups.
Our Technology Stack:
- Python
- Google Cloud
- Cloud Functions
- Apache Beam
- Pub/Sub
- Kubernetes
What you'll definitely need:
- 3+ years of experience in programming with Python.
- Familiarity with building scalable and distributed applications on the cloud.
- Profound knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
- You feel comfortable writing and maintaining Bash scripts in *nix environments.
- A genuine interest in DevOps topics/concepts (test automation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code etc.)
- A sincere interest in working with large amounts of data.
- The ability to present complex topics in plain English to non-technical peers and stakeholders.
What we'd love you to have:
- You have familiarity with GCP technologies like Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub.
- Knowledge/hands-on experience in distributed systems and/or streaming data technologies.
- A proven track record delivering complex and high-impactful tech products to a large user base.
What you can expect from life at trivago:
- Entrepreneurship: The freedom to take ownership of your work and drive initiatives independently. It's the idea that counts, not the position.
- Growth: Support for your development, constant new challenges, regular peer feedback, mentorship and training.
- International workforce: Collaboration with international talents from 80+ nations bringing different perspectives, backgrounds and expertise together to ensure a truly global focus.
- Flexibility: Self-determined working hours and the opportunity to split your time between home and our campus in Düsseldorf.
- Relocationand integration: Support with relocation costs, work permit and visa questions, insurance and free language classes.
- Equal opportunity: Commitment to fostering an all-inclusive workplace, because we know representing the diversity of our users in our talent force enables us to create a more meaningful product.
Additional information:
- To find out more about life at trivago follow us on @lifeattrivago on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
- To learn more about tech at trivago, check out our tech blog, follow @tech_trivago on Twitter and sign up to our tech newsletter.
- Want to learn more about trivago's business model to prepare for your interview? Find out more about Our Product.
A note regarding COVID-19:
We understand that there is a lot of uncertainty around the future of the travel industry. If you want more insight into our current strategy and outlook, follow our LinkedIn company updates.
Our recruiting team will be on hand every step of the way, but if you have any questions or concerns before applying, feel free to reach out to us at joinus@trivago.com.
We look forward to your application!
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Dusseldorf
Düsseldorf is a city on the River Rhine in western Germany and is the capital city of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is one of the economic centres of the country, and a major city within the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area, with a population of 620,000 (2018). While Frankfurt is the German hub for financial services and many other German cities excel in various branches of industry, Düsseldorf has the highest concentration of professional services, creative industries and media, and is regarded as the German capital of fashion. Düsseldorf also hosts a large number of German or European head offices of Japanese companies, and has a considerable Japanese population, forming over 1% of the city's population. The city is famous for its nightlife, carnival, events, shopping and for fashion and trade fairs like the Boot Messe (trade fair for boats and watersports) and Igedo (fashion fair). Every year, more than 4 million people visit the Kirmes fun fair which runs for 10 days in the summer.
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Job Facts short and efficient - how Germans like it
Location | Dusseldorf |
Region | Dusseldorf |
Category | Startup |
Employment | full time |
Work-week | 35 - 40h |
Employment start | ASAP |
Salary | negotiable |
Relocation | several relocation benefits, see description |
Language | English or German |
Posted | 2 weeks ago |
Closing in | 1 month, 1 week |
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