Site Reliability Engineer | Staff | NordVPN

at Nord Security
📍 Warsaw, Poland
PLN 279,600-417,600 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 4 Ansible @ 4 Go @ 6 Grafana @ 4 Linux @ 7 MySQL @ 4 Prometheus @ 4 Vault @ 4 VictoriaMetrics @ 4 Python @ 6 SQL @ 4 Airflow @ 4 NoSQL @ 4 Networking @ 7 PostgreSQL @ 4 Rust @ 6 Thanos @ 4 HTTP @ 7 Cassandra @ 4 PKI @ 4 OpenTelemetry @ 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. You will work on managing large-scale systems, automating infrastructure, and ensuring seamless service reliability. Overseeing a global infrastructure of ~10,000 on-prem servers, you’ll tackle unique technical challenges, engineer scalable systems, and have a direct impact on the reliability and performance of our products.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver projects on time: plan, delegate, execute, and oversee key projects.
  • Collaborate closely with stakeholders and other teams; mentor colleagues and lead knowledge transfer.
  • Ensure quality and reduce technical debt: deliver solutions with solid design and address blockers, toil, and debt to keep systems healthy.
  • Drive engineering excellence: aim for quality and choose the right solutions for the problems we face.
  • Protect solution quality: ensure designs are implemented with proper quality and minimal tech debt.
  • Make data-backed decisions: help teams and stakeholders navigate data and act on insights.
  • Design and maintain highly available, scalable infrastructure with monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection.
  • Automate everything: create and optimize automation to streamline deployments, improve speed, and cut manual work.
  • Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve critical issues in complex systems.
  • Integrate AI into workflows and processes to speed up delivery and reduce toil.

Requirements

  • Observability: experience with monitoring tools and frameworks to ensure system observability (OpenSearch, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, Nagios).
  • Databases and storage systems: experience operating highly available SQL, NoSQL databases, and object stores at scale (MySQL, Percona, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Timescale, Druid, MinIO).
  • Data visualization: ability to build meaningful dashboards that show the right insights (Grafana, OpenSearch Dashboards).
  • Alerting and anomaly detection: ability to build anomaly detection and alerting pipelines.
  • Programming: proficiency in one or more programming languages for automation scripts and integrations (Python, Go, Rust, C).
  • Linux: strong knowledge of Linux systems, especially Debian-based distributions.
  • Workflow automation: ability to use workflow automation frameworks (Airflow, Prefect, n8n).
  • Configuration management: ability to design and develop configuration management codebases and deployment pipelines (SaltStack, Ansible, Rundeck).
  • Networking: strong understanding of networking protocols and concepts (Overlay, VPN, Proxy, DNS, HTTP, SSL, TCP, UDP).
  • Security: ability to design secure systems and working knowledge of security concepts and tools (Vault, PKI, mTLS).

Benefits / Other details

  • Contract: B2B Contract (Gross+VAT).
  • Workplace: remote (role lists Warsaw as location / team base).
  • Team: Infrastructure - NordVPN.
  • Salary (gross): 23,300 - 34,800 PLN per month (see Salary Range).