3 months ago
Warsaw, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve infrastructure architecture, tooling strategy, and long-term technical decisions.
- Plan infrastructure layouts, select components, test systems, and deploy infrastructure.
- Work with declarative tooling including NixOS, k3s, and Terraform on primarily bare-metal servers with some cloud infrastructure.
- Plan and lead the construction of bare-metal infrastructure for deployment in low- to middle-income countries.
- Guide critical technical decisions, mentor engineers, and drive the long-term vision for reliable systems across multiple countries.
- Scope, plan, delegate, and hold engineers accountable for technical outcomes.
- Participate in hiring, candidate evaluation, and interviews.
- Handle internal and external communication.
- Optionally travel to understand operational needs and set up hardware in local data centers.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of infrastructure or systems engineering experience, including 1–2 years in a lead role.
- Ability to scope, plan, and delegate technical work and maintain accountability for outcomes.
- Broad knowledge of Linux internals, networking, databases, containers, hardware performance, and security.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including version control, readable code, testing, robust design, and basic data structures and algorithms.
- Working proficiency in English at least C1 in spoken and written communication, with typing speed of at least 45 words per minute.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, social intelligence, and emotional resilience for working across cultures, time zones, and high-stakes situations.
- Bonus experience with NixOS, Kubernetes, Terraform, bare-metal hardware selection and on-site setup, ethical hacking, programming or mathematics competitions, or relevant public health, agriculture, and sustainable development knowledge.
Benefits
- Full-time position physically based in Warsaw, Poland, with a hybrid remote and in-person schedule requiring at least 2–3 days per week in the office.
- Flexible working hours, including the ability to take short periods during the day for personal business without approval.
- Significant ownership and direct influence over team structure, engineering standards, and hiring.
- Fully declarative infrastructure with a strong preference to avoid manual operations.
- Unusual socially conscious projects and low bureaucracy.
- Optional travel to local data centers and project locations.
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