1 day ago
Vilnius, LithuaniaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop managed services and automation for the Kafka platform.
- Build, deploy, and operate reliable scalable services on bare metal and Kubernetes.
- Lead technical initiatives and complex multi-data-center infrastructure projects from design through production.
- Develop solutions for cross-region replication topologies and storage lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with Compute/Kubernetes, Production Engineering, Hardware Operations, and Product teams on Kafka APIs and client integrations.
- Define architectural direction with the Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager.
- Own SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, cluster health, performance, and maintenance for the Kafka fleet.
- Optimize infrastructure for resilience, low latency, efficient resource utilization, and failure recovery.
- Participate in an on-call rotation approximately once every five to seven weeks.
Requirements
- Strong backend software engineering and system design skills, ideally with production experience in Go.
- Hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting services on bare metal and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems throughout their production lifecycle.
- Understanding of reliability, scalability, monitoring, safe deployments, and failure recovery.
- Infrastructure operations or site reliability experience, or motivation to develop those skills and participate in on-call.
- Clear technical communication, effective cross-team collaboration, and excellent written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Share options programme.
- 25 working days of holiday.
- Access to all required work tools and technology.
- Home-office equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture.
- Private health insurance and a confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
- Frequent team-building events and a personal monthly Vinted shopping budget.
- Dog-friendly office, with gym and in-house meals in Vilnius; lunch allowance and weekly provided meals in Kaunas.
- Hybrid work with two recommended office days per week.
- Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally depending on eligibility.
- Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for professional development.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
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.