Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Engineering | NordVPN

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.

• Designing and operating globally distributed systems
• Systems architecture including service communication, data flow, and resilience patterns
• Linux administration at scale (systemd, kernel tuning, debugging production systems)
• Docker: building, shipping, and running containers in production
• Experience with 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

Nice to have:

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

• 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

Candidates must provide accurate and complete information during recruitment. Limited use of AI tools to refine application materials is acceptable, but candidates are responsible for their submissions. Applications may be processed using automated AI-based evaluation tools to support human decision-making. Candidates can opt out of automated evaluation by submitting applications directly via email.