NordVPN

Technology

SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer-TrafficEngineering

$23–34k Poland FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Traffic Engineering at NordVPN. Skills: Traffic Engineering, Load Balancing, Networking, Troubleshooting. Ensure content accessibility. Design load balancing systems”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Load balancing architecture, Traffic shaping architecture, NGINX configuration, HAProxy configuration, Networking fundamentals, OSI model fluency, Linux administration, Python programming, Troubleshooting network issues, Troubleshooting application issues, Observability knowledge

Nice to Have

Advanced networking, BGP, Traffic engineering, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, PROXY protocol v1/v2, Reverse proxy patterns, Header propagation

What You'll Do.

Ensure content accessibility

Design load balancing systems

Operate load balancing systems

Improve load balancing systems

Design traffic shaping systems

Operate traffic shaping systems

Improve traffic shaping systems

Troubleshoot connection issues

Troubleshoot latency issues

Troubleshoot accessibility issues

Own HTTP traffic flow

Investigate reachability problems

Resolve reachability problems

Diagnose issues across protocol layers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work across protocol layers

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 serves millions of users through a global edge network. Your number one responsibility is content accessibility - making sure traffic reaches users reliably, quickly, and securely, everywhere in the world. You'll work at the intersection of networking, load balancing, and traffic shaping. When something is slow, unreachable, or misbehaving at the protocol level, you're the person who finds out why and fixes it. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES - Ensure content accessibility across a globally distributed edge infrastructure - Design, operate, and improve load balancing and traffic shaping systems at scale - Troubleshoot connection, latency, and accessibility issues end to end - Own HTTP traffic flow - from client to edge to origin and back - Investigate and resolve website and service reachability problems - Work across protocol layers to diagnose issues at the right depth CORE REQUIREMENTS - Load balancing and traffic shaping - architecture, algorithms, health checking, failover - NGINX and/or HAProxy - configuration, tuning, debugging in high-traffic environments - Networking fundamentals - DNS, routing, firewall, packet capture and analysis - OSI model fluency - comfortable working across L3–L7, TCP internals, SSL/TLS handshake and termination - SaltStack - Linux administration - Python programming - automation, tooling, scripting - Troubleshooting network and application-layer issues in production at scale - Observability knowledge - metrics, logging, and monitoring for traffic systems - Docker knowledge - full lifecycle and dependency management with advanced networking BONUS POINTS FOR - Adva

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