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SRE Manager (VPN)

Proton· VPN
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Hybrid (Geneva/Barcelona)€62k - €95kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Engineering manager leading Proton VPN’s Site Reliability Engineering team to drive automation and observability, ensure fleet reliability, and scale the VPN service.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a team of eight engineers.
  • Decide what the team automates and measures first, and deliver that plan.
  • Own the reliability of the Proton VPN fleet, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Build monitoring that shows what users experience in each country, starting with throughput.
  • Replace manual provisioning, deployment, and repair work with tooling that ships changes to the fleet quickly and safely.
  • Set the engineering standards for the team, and coach engineers to solve operational problems with software.
  • Plan capacity and new locations with VPN product engineering, Proton's infrastructure teams, and our network and datacenter providers.

Qualifications

  • Several years of experience managing site reliability, infrastructure, or platform teams.
  • Experience leading a team from manual operations to automated ones, with results you can describe.
  • Strong technical judgment on large Linux fleets. You can review a design, read Python and Ansible, and find the gaps in a postmortem.
  • Experience owning the reliability of a production service, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Experience building or rebuilding the monitoring of a production service, and getting engineers to rely on it.
  • Experience running physical infrastructure, or a clear willingness to learn it.
  • Experience developing engineers, giving direct feedback, and addressing underperformance.
  • Experience delivering projects that depend on teams outside your own.
  • Habit of setting your own priorities. We will give you goals, and you will decide with the team how to reach them.
  • Clear writing in strategy documents, incident reports, and engineering standards.
  • A commitment to privacy and improving observability within Proton VPN’s no-logs framework.
  • Proton is an office-first company with in-person collaboration favored.

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementAutomation strategyReliability engineeringMonitoring and observabilityCloud/Infrastructure knowledgePython/AnsibleCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Work that Matters: impact focused on user privacy
  • Stock Options: ownership from day one
  • Technology: right hardware and software for your work
  • Learning & Development: growth opportunities
  • Employee Benefits: health coverage, retirement options, leave, wellness support
  • Food: lunch and snacks in the office
  • Transport: support for commuting costs
  • Flexible Working: outcomes over schedule flexibility
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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