Engineering Manager | NordVPN Infrastructure

Main Responsibilities

• People Leadership: Lead and grow a team of SREs, fostering a culture of ownership, learning and psychological safety;
• Reliability Strategy: Drive the strategy for improving the availability, performance and efficiency of services;
• Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams;
• Enablement & Tooling: Introduce tools, automation and internal platforms that reduce operational toil and enhance engineer productivity;
• Process Improvement: Champion best practices in operational excellence, including SLOs, error budgets, incident reviews and deployment planning;
• Incident Management: Oversee response and follow-up of major incidents, ensuring robust root cause analysis and corrective actions;
• Execution Ownership: Ensure team roadmaps are clear, aligned with business objectives, and delivered with high quality and predictability;
• Mentorship & Growth: Foster an environment where engineers are challenged, supported, and provided opportunities to grow in their careers.

Core Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of engineering management experience, ideally leading SRE, platform, or infrastructure teams;
• Technical Depth: Solid understanding of system design, distributed systems, and networking fundamentals;
• Operational Excellence: Deep familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident response, and chaos engineering;
• Execution Leadership: Proven ability to drive initiatives from concept through execution in an agile environment;
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable aligning stakeholders across technical and non-technical domains;
• Team Development: Demonstrated success in hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent;
• Process-Driven: Experience establishing and improving engineering processes.

Salary Range

• Gross monthly salary from 5000-8100EUR