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Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Engineering

DevOps / SRE • Principal • Remote • Full-time Poland Poland

NordVPN's platform engineering team builds and operates the internal backend services that power the company's global edge infrastructure; the Staff SRE role is a high-ownership position that architects and ships solutions to production.

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate on-demand, globally distributed backend services
  • Make architectural decisions on how internal services integrate and scale
  • Manage the full lifecycle: planning, implementation, monitoring, incident response, and postmortems
  • Maintain and improve infrastructure tooling and automation
  • Contribute to engineering standards, documentation, and operational maturity
  • Evaluate and integrate AI tooling (LLMs, Claude Code, model integrations) into engineering workflows

Requirements

  • Experience designing and operating globally distributed systems
  • Systems architecture knowledge - service communication, data flow, resilience patterns
  • Linux administration at scale (systemd, kernel tuning, debugging production systems)
  • Docker - building, shipping, and running containers in production
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics
  • Experience with web servers, load balancing, and failover (Nginx, HAProxy, or similar)
  • Experience working with dedicated/bare-metal hardware
  • Python or another scripting/programming language
  • Familiarity with AI/LLM tooling and its practical application in engineering workflows

Nice to have

  • Kubernetes in production environments
  • SaltStack experience
  • Advanced networking: BGP, anycast, tunneling, traffic engineering

What we offer

  • Work alongside global experts to build world-leading cybersecurity tools impacting millions of users
  • Boost your skills via extensive training programs (online and offline), mentorship, and career-switch opportunities
  • Hybrid work: 3 office days and 2 remote days per week
  • Work from anywhere for a change of scenery when needed
  • Physical well-being support, including online workouts

About the company

NordVPN, part of Nord Security, is the world's most advanced VPN, protecting millions of users daily through a global edge infrastructure spanning thousands of servers across dozens of countries.

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