NordVPN
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SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer—ObservabilityEngineer
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“Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Observability Engineer at NordVPN. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Observability Engineering, Distributed systems. Design monitoring pipelines. Improve observability tooling”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
Office days: 3, Work from home: 2
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Distributed systems observability, Golden signal thinking, Alert design, Python scripting, Linux administration
Nice to Have
SaltStack, Advanced networking, Advanced data knowledge, Onboarding new systems, Agentic engineering
What You'll Do.
Design monitoring pipelines
Improve observability tooling
Define service-level monitoring
Implement service-level monitoring
Build actionable alerts
Develop custom exporters
Maintain custom exporters
Develop custom scripts
Maintain custom scripts
Maintain integrations
Collaborate on anomaly detection
Provide data-driven insights
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Data teams
Full Job Description
THE WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED VPN, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE. If you’re a curious problem-solver who carves their own path, join the team behind Threat Protection Pro, the NordLynx protocol, and the fastest VPN on the planet—tools that put privacy, security, and control back in people’s hands. Your impact? Helping millions take back control of their online security, privacy, and data. NordVPN runs a global edge infrastructure serving millions of users. Knowing what's happening across that infrastructure - in real time, at scale, without drowning in noise - is what this role exists to solve. We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) focused on observability: designing monitoring systems, improving signal quality, reducing alert fatigue, and collaborating with data teams on anomaly detection. You'll own how we understand the health and behavior of our distributed systems. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES - Design, build, and improve monitoring pipelines and observability tooling across globally distributed infrastructure - Define and implement service-level monitoring based on golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, saturation) - Reduce alert fatigue - build meaningful, actionable alerts that engineers trust - Develop and maintain custom exporters, scripts, and integrations for metrics and log collection - Collaborate with the data team on anomaly detection and data-driven operational insights - Understand service signals - know what to measure, why, and what the numbers actually mean CORE REQUIREMENTS - Distributed systems observability - monitoring architecture, signal design, dashboarding - Golden signal thinking - you design monitoring around what matters, not what's easy to measure - Alert design - reducing noise, building actionable alerts, managing on-call sanity - Python - scripting, custom exporters, automation, data processing - Linux administration and debugging - Networking fundamentals BONUS POINTS FOR - SaltStack - Advanced networking - traffic analysis,
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