Site Reliability Engineer
Trainline
| Company | Trainline |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | London |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | GBP 55k–63k |
| Posted | 29 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
About us
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
Introducing Reliability & Operations Engineering 👋
Trainline is a fast-growing tech company powering world-class digital journeys for millions of customers. Our platform runs primarily on AWS, built on cloud-native architecture, modern CI/CD pipelines, and strong DevOps and SRE practices.
The Reliability & Operations Engineering team (ReliabilityOps) brings together SRE, Incident Management, and Database Reliability to keep our platform observable, reliable, scalable, and resilient. We partner closely with product engineering teams to enable safe delivery, respond to incidents, and continuously strengthen system reliability.
We’re looking for a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer to help drive this forward. You’ll bring solid production experience, a growth mindset, and a willingness to challenge and be challenged — contributing to platform reliability while developing broader technical ownership with support from senior engineers.
As an SRE at Trainline, you'll be working on...🚄
- Developing an understanding of system architecture, dependencies, and failure modes across the Trainline platform
- Participating in production incident response, supporting investigation, mitigation, communication, and coordinated service restoration
- Contributing to post-incident reviews and follow-up actions to improve reliability, scalability, and resilience
- Taking part in the SRE on-call rotation
- Designing, building, and maintaining observability using metrics, logs, events, and traces to support effective detection and diagnosis
- Improving monitoring and alerting by aligning signals to business and customer impact, reducing noise and improving mean time to detection (MTTD)
- Ensuring relevant operational data is surfaced quickly and clearly during live incidents
- Making informed tooling and technology choices using SRE principles, balancing team and business needs
- Supporting AWS-hosted infrastructure and shared platform services using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling
- Collaborating with product engineering teams to ensure services are operationally ready and deployed safely
- Advising on reliability and resilience practices
- Writing and maintaining reliable, well-structured code and scripts to support reliability and observability goals
- Prioritising work effectively and collaborating using agile processes to deliver against team and business goals
Our Tech Stack 🔑
- AWS
- New Relic
- ELK stack
- Grafana
- Incident.io
- Docker, ECS
- Terraform
- Github Actions
We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍
- Experience of SRE concepts such as SLI, SLO and error budgets.
- Hands-on experience with observability tooling such as New Relic, Elastic (ELK Stack), Influx, Grafana or similar
- Experience working with cloud providers (preferably AWS).
- Experience troubleshooting Linux operating systems.
- Experience of scripting in at least one language (preferably Python)
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