Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Engineering | NordVPN

The world’s most advanced VPN, and a whole lot more.

If you’re a curious problem-solver who carves their own path, join the team behind Threat Protection Pro, the NordLynx protocol, and the fastest VPN on the planet—tools that put privacy, security, and control back in people’s hands.

Your impact? Helping millions take back control of their online security, privacy, and data.

NordVPN protects millions of users daily through a global edge infrastructure spanning thousands of servers across dozens of countries. The platform engineering team builds and operates the internal backend services that make this possible.

We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, operate, and improve these systems. This is a high-ownership role - you'll architect solutions, ship them to production. You're the person others rely on when the architecture needs rethinking or a service needs to go from zero to globally deployed.

Main 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, 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

Core Requirements

• Designing and operating globally distributed systems

• Systems architecture - 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

• Web servers, load balancing, and failover (Nginx, HAProxy, or similar)

• Working with dedicated/bare-metal hardware

• Python or another scripting/programming language

• Familiarity with AI/LLM tooling and practical application in engineering workflows

Bonus Points For

• Kubernetes in production environments

• SaltStack (used heavily internally)

• Advanced networking - BGP, anycast, tunneling, traffic engineering

Tools You Will Use

• GitLab

• Nexus

• Consul

• SaltStack

• Vault

• OpenSearch

• VictoriaMetrics

• Prefect/Airflow/Dagster

• Grafana

What We Offer

• Sharpen your edge: training, mentorship, and room to grow — always.

• Take the time you need: extra vacation days, sick days, and time off when life calls.

• Get premium healthcare: private health insurance in Lithuania and Poland — fully covered.

• Protect your peace: enjoy free subscriptions to Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic, and our own resilience and mindfulness trainings.

• Own your fitness: in-house gyms, sport cards, online workouts, and personal guidance — on us.