Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Engineering | NordVPN

NordVPN operates a global edge infrastructure protecting millions of users daily with thousands of servers across dozens of countries. The platform engineering team builds and operates the internal backend services supporting this infrastructure.

• 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 (e.g., Nginx, HAProxy)
• Working with dedicated/bare-metal hardware
• Proficiency in Python or another scripting/programming language
• Familiarity with AI/LLM tooling and applications in engineering workflows

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes in production environments
• SaltStack (used heavily internally)
• 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

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