About the role

Role overview

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Platform & Cloud FinOps) at Hopper, you will help optimize Google Cloud infrastructure to improve system reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. You’ll work with a small team of SREs on platform incident response and ongoing reliability and FinOps improvements.

Key missions

Improve cost efficiency initiatives (e.g., reduce network egress costs, optimize autoscaling).
Support incident resolution and participate in an on-call rotation for platform incidents.
Enhance cost attribution so teams have clear visibility into their costs.

Requirements

Strong troubleshooting skills.
Communication skills.
Ability to perform system design with strong analytical capabilities.
Knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies.
Proficiency in scripting with Bash and Python (or other scripting languages).
Security knowledge, including IAM, RBAC, and network security.
Experience with database technologies.
Knowledge of major cloud providers, preferably Google Cloud.
Observability experience (logs, metrics, APM), preferably Datadog.
Experience with CI/CD.
Strong background in SRE/DevOps/software engineering/systems engineering.

Nice-to-haves / Additional focus areas

Containers and Kubernetes, plus tooling such as Kustomize and Helm.
Networking knowledge (DNS, TLS, certificates, ingresses).
SQL knowledge.
Service Mesh, preferably Istio.

About Hopper

Hopper is a travel technology company that provides travel-related products and services powered by large-scale software systems. The company is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability and scalability of its cloud infrastructure, with a focus on cost efficiency and FinOps on Google Cloud.