Surfshark

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (VPN Engineering)

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2 days ago
Warsaw, PolandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Automate and scale deployment and management of thousands of VPN servers across a global fleet.
  • Design out single points of failure and improve infrastructure resilience.
  • Build monitoring, logging, and anomaly detection systems.
  • Troubleshoot Linux systems, networking, VPN protocols, and proxy layers.
  • Reduce manual work through scripts, n8n workflows, Jira integrations, and internal tooling.
  • Partner with software engineers to improve infrastructure, CI/CD, tooling, and reliability processes.
  • Lead incident response, postmortems, disaster recovery readiness, and performance optimization.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in SRE or similar roles 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 experience with Bash, Python, or Lua.
  • Experience monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting performance and reliability issues at scale.
  • Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, incident management, disaster recovery, and secure infrastructure practices.
  • Ability to use Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot responsibly while checking outputs for security and performance.
  • Experience with bare-metal provisioning, iPXE/PXE network boot, hardware lifecycle, out-of-band management, hosting or colocation providers, provider APIs, or globally distributed latency-sensitive services is preferred.

Benefits

  • Professional development time, conferences, online learning platforms, and books.
  • Health and wellness benefits including online workouts, a physical coach, gym access, and mental health checks.
  • Choice of technical equipment and work tools.
  • Yearly workation, Friday get-togethers, team-building activities, and company celebrations.
  • Partial compensation for public transportation costs depending on circumstances.
  • Primarily office-based work with up to two remote days per week and a work-from-anywhere policy allowing work from almost anywhere in the world.
  • Premium Surfshark accounts for the employee, family, and friends.

Tech Stack

AnsibleBashLinuxLuaPython

Categories

Site Reliability
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About Surfshark

501-1,000 employees

Surfshark develops consumer cybersecurity and privacy software, including a cross-platform VPN, antivirus, data-leak alerts, private search, and data removal tools. It sells subscription plans directly to individuals, offering apps for desktop, mobile, and browsers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the company serves a global consumer market.

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