Engineering Manager | NordVPN Infrastructure

at Nord Security
📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
📍 Kaunas, Lithuania
EUR 60,000-97,200 per year
SENIOR
✅ Hybrid

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 4 Hiring @ 7 Leadership @ 4 Communication @ 7 Networking @ 4 SRE @ 6 Engineering Management @ 6 Agile @ 4

Details

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.

Responsibilities

  • People Leadership: Lead and grow a team of SREs, fostering a culture of ownership, learning and psychological safety
  • Reliability Strategy: Drive the strategy for improving the availability, performance and efficiency of services
  • Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams
  • Enablement & Tooling: Introduce tools, automation and internal platforms that reduce operational toil and enhance engineer productivity
  • Process Improvement: Champion best practices in operational excellence, including SLOs, error budgets, incident reviews and deployment planning
  • Incident Management: Oversee response and follow-up of major incidents, ensuring robust root cause analysis and corrective actions
  • Execution Ownership: Ensure team roadmaps are clear, aligned with business objectives, and delivered with high quality and predictability
  • Mentorship & Growth: Foster an environment where engineers are challenged, supported, and provided opportunities to grow in their careers

Requirements

  • Experience: 3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally leading SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams
  • Technical Depth: Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and networking fundamentals
  • Operational Excellence: Deep familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident response, and chaos engineering
  • Execution Leadership: Proven ability to drive initiatives from concept through execution in an agile environment
  • Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable aligning stakeholders across technical and non-technical domains
  • Team Development: Demonstrated success in hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent
  • Process-Driven: Experience establishing and improving engineering processes