Our mission is to make second-hand the first choice, and we're looking for people who want to help us get there. Every day, we work together to help our members buy and sell pre-loved clothing and lifestyle items, giving each piece a second life – or even a third.
The Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:
Vinted Marketplace is Europe’s leading platform for second-hand fashion and a go-to destination for all kinds of pre-loved items, with a growing range of categories. Our platform connects millions of members across 20+ markets, helping great items find a new life.
Vinted Go enhances the shipping experience with a vast network of over 500,000 pick-up and drop-off points, partnering with more than 60 carriers across Europe, with added services like item verification for peace of mind on high-value pieces.
Vinted Pay is the newest part of the Vinted Group, dedicated to bringing secure, reliable payments to buyers and sellers across Europe. Seamlessly integrated into the Vinted app, it helps keep every transaction safe, efficient, and easy for our members.
Founded in 2008 in Lithuania, Vinted began as a way for friends to find new homes for clothes they no longer needed. In 2019, we became Lithuania's first unicorn! Today, our headquarters remain in Vilnius, and we've grown with offices across Europe, supported by a team of over 2,000 people.
As a Staff Engineer for Compute & Cloud, you will be responsible for setting and guiding the technical strategy of Vinted's core container orchestration platforms and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The Foundations domain is the cornerstone of Vinted’s infrastructure, providing the essential resources that enable our engineering teams to scale and deliver value to millions of users globally. In this role, you will report to the Director of Engineering for Foundations and work closely with the engineering managers and teams dedicated to our Compute and Cloud pillars. You will drive the architecture for our massive-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environment (running across approximately 3,000 physical servers) and define our standardized public cloud integrations across AWS and GCP. You will ensure that Vinted’s workload platform is highly available, resource-efficient, securely isolated, and seamlessly integrated across both on-premise data centers and public cloud providers.
In this position, you’ll- Own the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for Vinted's compute platforms, container orchestration, and public cloud footprint.
- Set the standards for building, scaling, and managing our vast Kubernetes and Istio fleets, ensuring a stable, high-performance, and resilient runtime environment for thousands of microservices.
- Architect our hybrid cloud strategy, defining clear paved paths and governance for how Vinted utilizes public cloud services (AWS, GCP) alongside our bare-metal data centers.
- Lead improvements in platform efficiency, multi-tenant cluster isolation, and infrastructure-as-code practices, acting as a force multiplier for the Compute and Cloud engineering teams.
- Collaborate deeply with domain teams, Staff Engineers, and other platform leaders to unblock the delivery of technical initiatives and eliminate compute bottlenecks.
- Solve hard distributed systems problems, including dynamic workload scaling, stateful workload orchestration, and global cluster federation.
- Represent the Foundations technological area within the Staff/Principal Engineer layer, providing architectural guidance for domains that consume our compute and cloud platforms.
- Extensive prior experience as an architect, principal, or staff engineer, having delivered cross-team technical infrastructure initiatives in organizations operating at a massive scale.
- Deep, hands-on understanding of scaling container orchestration platforms, specifically Kubernetes, in highly complex, multi-cluster environments.
- Strong expertise in public cloud architecture (AWS and/or GCP), cloud-native ecosystems, and hybrid cloud integration strategies.
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), platform automation, and modern observability stacks.
- Demonstrable ability to design resilient compute platforms that handle node failures, cluster upgrades, and capacity constraints seamlessly.
- Ability to delegate refinement and implementation of technical initiatives to engineers in your organization, while providing clear architectural boundaries and mentorship.
- Sharp communication skills and an ability to discuss complex distributed systems topics in detail, building alignment and consensus across different engineering domains.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
- 25 working days of holiday
- Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- Private health insurance
- Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
- Frequent team-building events
- A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
- The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
- A dog-friendly office
- In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
- In Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast
Individual Learning Budget
We invest in your professional growth! As part of our commitment to continuous learning, we offer an annual learning budget to support your personal and career development through courses, certifications, workshops and more.
Hybrid Work
We’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in the office are recommended but not enforced. It’s up to you and your team to decide on the exact days you’ll spend working together in person.
Equal Opportunity
The Vinted Group is committed to building an inclusive workplace where people from all walks of life feel a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and life experiences. At Vinted, all applicants are treated fairly without regard to their race, age, religion or belief, sex, national origin, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience as an architect, principal, or staff engineer in large-scale organizations
- Hands-on understanding of Kubernetes in complex environments
- Expertise in AWS and/or GCP architecture
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Ability to design resilient compute platforms
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
Vinted Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vinted and has not been reviewed or approved by Vinted.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employees can participate in a share options program, and recurring internal secondary‑liquidity events make equity value more tangible.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 working days of holiday and a workation policy allowing up to 90 days of remote work per year (including a limited allowance outside the EU) broaden time‑away options.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is topped up to full gross salary for 20 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 weeks for secondary caregivers in Lithuania, with flexible leave until the child turns two.
Vinted Insights
What We Do
We’re the world’s biggest preloved fashion marketplace. The brainchild of Milda Mitkutė and Justas Janauskas, Vinted grew from a local website into a mobile-first community of 20 million people in 10 countries which is boasting over 30 million listings in total. Our mission: make second hand the #1 choice worldwide. We do it by shaking up everyday shopping habits and creating new personalized ways of buying, selling, and swapping clothes, accessories, and lifestyle items. We’re always on the lookout for smart people who know exactly how they can contribute to making Vinted better. Join or lead cross-functional teams at a startup where your impact is never limited to your job description. Step out of your comfort zone. Grow with us. And have fun with a team of more than 200 people along the way. You can find all open positions: https://www.vinted.com/jobs If you know you belong here - tell us why! Follow us! https://www.instagram.com/weworkatvinted/
