Senior Site Reliability Engineer (VPN Engineering)

Location: Vilnius, Warsaw, or Kaunas, with office work encouraged and up to two remote days per week; a WFA policy allows working from almost anywhere in the world.

Gross salary: €4,500–€7,400 per month for the Lithuanian market or PLN 20,450–34,000 per month for the Polish market, depending on skills and experience.

Company

hirify.global operates a global VPN service running on thousands of servers worldwide.

What you will do

• Automate and scale deployment and management of thousands of VPN servers across a distributed fleet.
• Design resilient infrastructure and eliminate single points of failure.
• Build monitoring, logging, and anomaly detection that identify issues before incidents occur.
• Troubleshoot Linux systems, networking, VPN protocols, and proxy layers in production.
• Develop automation and internal tooling, including scripts, n8n workflows, and Jira integrations.
• Lead incident response, postmortems, disaster recovery readiness, performance improvements, and reliability work with software engineers.

Requirements

• Proven SRE or similar experience with ownership of production-critical systems at scale.
• Strong Linux systems and networking knowledge, including DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls, and proxies.
• Production experience with Ansible and infrastructure automation.
• Scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Lua for operational automation.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting performance and reliability issues at scale.
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, incident management, disaster recovery, and secure infrastructure practices.
• Comfort using AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, with the judgment to verify their security and performance.

Nice to have

• Experience with bare-metal provisioning, iPXE/PXE network boot, hardware lifecycle management, and out-of-band management.
• Coordination with hosting or colocation providers through remote-hands services and provider APIs.
• Experience operating latency-sensitive, globally distributed services or driving cross-team architecture decisions.

Culture & Benefits

• Dedicated time and support for professional development, including conferences, online learning platforms, and books.
• Health and wellness benefits, including online workouts, a physical coach, gym access, and regular mental health checks.
• Choice of technical equipment and tools.
• Yearly workation, Friday gatherings, team-building activities, and company celebrations.
• Partial public transport cost compensation and premium hirify.global accounts for the employee, family, and friends.