62K–95K EUR / year
SRE Manager (VPN)
Engineering managerOn-site — Barcelona, Geneva
Published on 2026-10-08
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About this role
Lead the site reliability team responsible for Proton VPN’s global bare-metal server fleet. Drive the shift from manual operations to automation and build observability that detects country-level user experience issues, while owning service reliability and developing the team.
About the company
Proton builds end-to-end encrypted email, VPN, storage, password, and related privacy tools for individuals and businesses.
The team
VPN Site Reliability Engineering team of eight engineers, reporting to the VPN Engineering Director.
Stack
DebianAnsiblePythonPrometheusVictoriaMetricsGrafana
What you'll do
- Manage and develop a team of eight engineers.
- Set priorities and deliver plans for fleet automation and observability.
- Own fleet reliability, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and postmortems.
- Build monitoring for user experience by country, starting with throughput.
- Automate fleet provisioning, deployment, and repair.
- Set engineering standards and coach engineers to solve operational problems with software.
- Plan capacity and new locations with product, infrastructure, network, and datacenter partners.
What we're looking for
- Several years managing SRE, infrastructure, or platform teams.
- Demonstrated success moving a team from manual operations to automation.
- Strong technical judgment on large Linux fleets; able to review Python and Ansible and assess postmortems.
- Experience owning production reliability, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and postmortems.
- Experience building or rebuilding production monitoring and driving its adoption.
- Experience with physical infrastructure or willingness to learn.
- Experience developing engineers, giving direct feedback, and addressing underperformance.
- Experience delivering cross-team projects and setting priorities independently.
Nice to have
- Networking expertise, including routing, peering, WireGuard, OpenVPN, and packet-level debugging.
- Experience with censorship circumvention or infrastructure in restricted network environments.
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple countries, including vendor and legal coordination.
- Software engineering background, preferably in Python or another programming language.
Benefits
- Stock options from day one.
- Health coverage, retirement options, generous leave, and wellness support.
- Office lunch and snacks.
- Public transport, bike, or parking allowance.
- Flexible working hours and some work-from-home flexibility.
- Learning and development support.