Site Reliability Engineer | Senior | NordVPN Apps

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Run the infrastructure and services layer that the internal data organization (Analysts, Scientists, Engineers) relies on daily, within a small, senior-leaning SRE team
• ▹Design, build, maintain, and document internal platforms with a heavy focus on automation, reliability, and scalability
• ▹Own the stability, availability, and security of services (Minio, Spark, Kafka, OpenSearch, Tableau, and more)
• ▹Engineer systems to be resilient by design — no on-call rotations, just solutions robust enough that they aren't needed
• ▹Support services that Product teams depend on, such as OpenSearch for real-time analytics and Tableau for longer-term reporting
• ▹Work directly with Analysts, Scientists, and Engineers to debug their queries, code, and workflows
• ▹Drive cost optimization and capacity planning, scaling 100+ bare-metal servers and PiB-scale storage to match demand
• ▹Diagnose hardware faults (failing disks, memory, etc.) and dispatch remote hands for physical fixes
• ▹Champion automation and engineering best practices through ongoing R&D
• ▹Help shape the team's structure, tooling, and future direction

Requirements

• ▹5+ years in Systems Engineering / SRE / DevOps, with demonstrated ownership of system design and architecture
• ▹5+ years working with Linux/Debian in production
• ▹Python, Bash, and Git proficiency
• ▹Solid hands-on experience with containerization — everything runs containerized
• ▹Production experience managing servers and services with Ansible
• ▹Experience with Grafana and observability tooling
• ▹Experience building and operating GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• ▹Comfortable debugging across the stack and across team boundaries, including other people's code and data workflows
• ▹A practical understanding of server hardware and how it fails, even without physical access
• ▹Excellent written and spoken English
• ▹A proactive, detail-oriented mindset and genuine appetite for hard problems

Nice to have

• ▹Experience operating any of the core services (Minio, Spark, Kafka, OpenSearch, Tableau)
• ▹Mentoring or technical-leadership experience
• ▹Having a HomeLab

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Work alongside global experts to build world-leading cybersecurity tools impacting millions of users
• ▹Boost skills via extensive training programs (online and offline) and other resources

About the company

Nord Security builds the world's most advanced VPN and more, including Threat Protection Pro and the NordLynx protocol, tools that put privacy, security, and control back in people's hands.