Network Engineer

About trivago

When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! Our leading metasearch engine is super fast and constantly optimized - enabling millions of travelers to compare hotel prices from hundreds of booking sites and find great deals in just a few clicks. We use cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data to create an experience - time and money saved! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn every day, innovate, and make an enduring mark on the travel industry. At trivago, you will find those who aren’t afraid of change but rather embrace it, turning every challenge into a pathway for growth. Join trivago, work with a great team, and grow with us!

Position

Join us in making a difference

Our Hybrid Platform team is looking for an experienced Network Engineer to work with other cloud, network, and system professionals to ensure the overall operational health (security, availability, performance and reliability) of our workload and network infrastructure.

You are ideally someone who is focused, organized, and keen on solving problems with an eye for details. Take your next career steps with us, we’re looking forward to your application.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Be part of trivago’s Hybrid Platform team providing the infrastructure foundation for our core products.
• Design, implement and improve the network architecture of our hybrid environment spanning across multiple-clouds, data-centre and our campus.
• Automate complex tasks and independently develop solutions for improvement areas.
• Proactively resolve and perform root cause analysis for critical issues related to our networking infrastructure.
• Share your technical know-how with other teams and document your solutions, concepts, and approaches for future reference.
• Mentor and develop less experienced engineers.

Your qualification

What you'll need to thrive:

• 5+ years work experience in network engineering with a good understanding of cloud technologies.
• A team player who enjoys collaborating with different people and sharing knowledge.
• Experience using Juniper routers, switches and firewalls.
• Understanding of communication protocols (mainly TCP/IP) and routing protocols. (e.g. BGP, OSPF)
• Solid understanding of modern datacenter architecture. (e.g. IP Fabric)
• Experience in automation using Terraform or Ansible.
• The ability to present complex topics in plain English to non-technical peers and stakeholders.
• Taking part in our networking on-call rotation. (24x7)

Stand out with:

• Experience and interest working with data-centre hardware.
• Experience using Google Cloud Networking.

What we offer

As you grow, so do we.

This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and provide workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and access to a fully-equipped campus library.

Moving to join us?

No problem. You can count on the visa support from our talent support team, a relocation package, interest-free newcomer loan, free language classes, regular team and company-wide events to build experiences together.

Life happens.

We offer self-determined vacation (with a minimum of 25 vacation days), flexible working hours, up to 2 work from home days weekly. Additionally you can work remotely from a different location, within Germany or selected countries abroad for up to 20 days per year. You also get free access to the Heycare platform for personalized nanny assistance, and an on-campus kids room.

Enjoy your office days.

Use your daily canteen budget to share lunch with colleagues in our canteen, help yourself to complimentary snacks and drinks in our kitchens, choose from a variety of fitness options with our on-site gym, sports classes, and Urban Sports Club membership, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.