17 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the team’s technical direction by scoping complex problems, designing solutions, and coordinating delivery across teams.
- Own and improve incident management, on-call processes, alerting, and related tooling.
- Reduce alert fatigue by establishing alert standards and making production pages actionable.
- Design event pipelines supporting an AI incident agent that suggests root causes during outages.
- Define company-wide standards for SLOs and alerts and simplify the tools used to create them.
- Define and track product and process metrics related to adoption, impact, and developer experience.
- Keep alert routing and other critical systems reliable and simple to operate.
- Mentor five engineers through system design reviews, collaborative RFCs, and technical guidance.
Requirements
- Proven experience architecting, building, and operating high-scale distributed systems in production.
- Experience owning distributed systems from design through operation.
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents.
- Strong product mindset for developer tooling and experience treating engineers as customers.
- Understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, traces, and SLOs.
- Strong technical communication, written and spoken English, and the ability to explain architectural risks to non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated mentoring, collaboration, diplomacy, and ability to guide newer engineers.
- Experience with Go or strong experience with Java, Rust, Python, C++, or similar technologies.
- Experience with incident management, on-call, observability tooling, or platform teams is advantageous.
- Experience building LLM-based tools or agents is advantageous.
Benefits
- Share options programme.
- 25 days of paid annual leave.
- Newest MacBook models.
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
- Frequent team-building events.
- Home-office IT equipment and up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
- Daily lunch allowance, company bike leasing, flexible benefits budget, work-from-home allowance, pension plan, Vinted shopping budget, NS mobility card, and dog-friendly office.
- Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally for eligible arrangements.
- Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for professional development.
- Hybrid work model with two recommended office days per week.
About Vinted
Vinted runs a consumer-to-consumer marketplace and app for buying and selling second-hand fashion and related items across Europe. It monetizes through transaction-related fees, buyer protection, and shipping services, and also operates Vinted Go for logistics and Vinted Pay for payments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the platform serves members in 20+ European markets.