Engineering Manager | NordVPN Infra | Careers

Engineering Manager | NordVPN Infra

Full Time

hybrid

Infrastructure

Vilnius / Kaunas

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.

Main Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Vision: Define and drive the internal platform strategy aligned with company-wide engineering goals; identify high-leverage opportunities to reduce friction and improve developer productivity; balance standardization vs. flexibility to create reusable building blocks without slowing teams down;

Developer Experience (DevEx): Own and improve the end-to-end developer journey from local dev to production; reduce cognitive load through self-service infrastructure, golden paths and clear abstractions; leverage and integrate AI-driven tools to improve developer productivity, debugging and operational workflows.

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 Enablement: Partner closely with SRE, Procurement and Product teams to understand pain points and priorities; act as a force multiplier enabling teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.

Operational Excellence: Embed SRE principles into platform solutions (SLOs, error budgets, observability by default); continuously reduce operational toil across engineering teams;

Incident Management: Oversee response and follow-up of major incidents, ensuring robust root cause analysis and corrective actions;

Mentorship & Growth: Foster an environment where engineers are challenged, supported, and provided opportunities to grow in their careers.

Core Requirements

Experience: 3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally leading SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams;

Platform Thinking: Strong understanding of platform engineering concepts (self-service, paved roads, internal products); experience building tools or platforms used by other engineers.

Technical Depth: Solid background in distributed systems and infrastructure; hands-on experience with modern infrastructure stacks (cloud, containers, CI/CD, observability); ability to engage deeply in technical discussions and guide architectural decisions.

Operational Excellence: Deep familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident response and chaos engineering.

Execution & Collaboration: Proven ability to drive cross-team initiatives in complex environments; strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders; ability to balance long-term platform investments with short-term impact;

Team Development: Demonstrated success in hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent;

Process-Driven: Experience establishing and improving engineering processes.

Salary Range

Gross Salary 5000 - 8600 EUR/Month

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