When travelers are searching for a hotel, we want the obvious choice to be trivago! By using cutting-edge technology, real-time auction, and machine learning techniques with petabytes of data, we create an experience that saves travelers both time and money! In the lively city of Düsseldorf, we seize opportunities to learn everyday, 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!

Join us in making a difference

Our hybrid Platform team is looking for a curious and tech-savvy working student to join us in maintaining and developing the trivago Intelligence Platform. This critical system supports various business functions across trivago, and you’ll be learning how to bridge development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers to help create and maintain scalable and highly reliable software systems. This is your chance to gain real-world experience in Site Reliability Engineering while studying, with mentorship from professionals who are passionate about technology and innovation. Ready to tackle exciting challenges and build your technical foundation? Apply today!

How you’ll make an impact:

• Continuously learn and adapt to new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance development capabilities.
• Participate in infrastructure automation projects and contribute to maintaining high standards of quality and documentation.
• Share insights from your academic learning, and support peers by bringing fresh perspectives to the team.
• Learn and assist in maintaining and troubleshooting system reliability and performance
• Support the team in monitoring and improving infrastructure operations
• Collaborate on automation projects to reduce manual operations
• Help implement and maintain Kubernetes clusters and service deployments
• Participate in the analysis and resolution of technical issues
• Contribute to documentation and process improvements

What you’ll gain:

• Experience in large, real-life projects
• Mentorship from our highly talented engineers
• A network of contacts in the tech industry

What we’re looking for:

• Fluency in English
• Availability to work 20 hours per week and ability to commute to campus twice a week
• Enrolled in a Master’s program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (must maintain student status)
• Good Knowledge of Git
• Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
• Basic knowledge of Linux systems and networking concepts
• Basic Knowledge of DevOps, deployments, infrastructure automation and CI/CD
• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment, asking questions, and seeking feedback.

What makes you stand out:

• Problem-solving skills
• Experience with network management (e.g. DHCP)
• Experience with any monitoring tooling (InfluxDB, Grafana, ELK, etc.).

What you can look forward to:

As you grow, so do we.

This is why at trivago, we prioritize your development, offer personalized coaching through Nilo, and free German language classes. You’ll have access to workshops, educational meetups, conferences, free online learning courses, and a fully-equipped campus library. We also organize regular team and many company-wide events so you can build experiences with us.

Life happens.

We offer paid vacation days during your employment, flexible working hours, 1 work from home day weekly. Additionally you can work remotely from a different location, within Germany or selected countries abroad for up to 20 days per year.

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, stay healthy with our on-site gym and sports classes, and enjoy the comfort of ergonomic desks and focused work areas.