Backend Engineer in SRE, Production Engineering

Brief Info About VintedOur 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. Our backers include Accel, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sprints, and TPG.Information About The PositionWe are looking for a Backend Engineer with a focus or interest in infrastructure to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in the Production Engineering domain. Together with a team of experienced colleagues, you will be responsible for the development and maintenance of storage infrastructure consisting of hundreds of Redis clusters, hundreds of etcd clusters, petabytes of data stored in Ceph, and terabytes of memcached caches running on thousands of physical servers across various regions.Our Production Engineering domain is responsible for ensuring the Vinted platform operates 24/7 and provides essential infrastructure to other teams.You'll work with a diverse tech stack, including:Languages: Go, RubyDatabases/Storage: MySQL, Vitess, Elasticsearch, Ceph, Redis, etcd, memcachedMonitoring/Observability: Prometheus, Thanos, GrafanaDevOps/Orchestration: Rocky Linux, Chef, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Istio, Argo CD...and more. In this position, you’ll Automate team-owned infrastructure, making it easy to operate, scale and manageMaintain and improve team-owned Images service, serving images for millions of Vinted usersSolve complex technical problems with significant business impactParticipate in one-week on-call rotation, making sure our infrastructure is in the best shape at all timesAbout YouYou have a strong programming background, ideally in Go or Ruby, though experience in other languages is also welcomeYou have an understanding of Linux operating systemsYou’re familiar with, or willing to learn, our technology stack, or you have worked with similar tools and platformsYou communicate effectively in English, both written and spoken. Work perks The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme25 working days of holidayNewest MacBook modelsDigital mental and emotional health support and Employee Assistant Program (EAP)Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furnitureNever ending snacks and monthly lunch benefitPrivate health insuranceFrequent team-building eventsA personal monthly budget for shopping on VintedThe opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workationA dog-friendly officeWorking at Vinted Individual Learning BudgetWe 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 WorkWe’ve adopted a hybrid workplace model where 2 days in 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 OpportunityThe 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.The salary range for this position is € 3,558 - € 6,725 gross per month.