Site Reliability Engineer, Proton
+ Stock Options
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Open for applications
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- Linux Expertise: Knowledge of Linux operating system internals, networking stack, and kernel tuning
- Infrastructure as Code: Strong Experience with Kubernetes orchestration and automation using Terraform, Ansible, Puppet or similar tools
- Programming Skills: Python proficiency for developing automation tools and operational scripts
- Architecture: Ability to design Highly Available and complex distributed scalable systems architecture
- Observability Tools: Hands-on experience with monitoring solutions like Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
- Security Knowledge: Understanding of security principles and best practices for infrastructure
- Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies as our infrastructure evolves
- Strong problem-solving abilities, especially in high-pressure situations
- Collaborative mindset for working with the whole Infrastructure department
Desirable
- Experience with bare metal provisioning
- On-premise cloud solutions experience
- Contribution to open-source projects
What the job involves
- You will be part of the Infrastructure Systems team which provides all base platforms in Proton (Kubernetes, VM orchestration, Bare metal provisioning) as well as all the critical services for them (DNS, DHCP, SoT, Monitoring...)
- Infrastructure Management: Oversee and optimize our rapidly expanding global network of thousands of servers
- Automation & Reliability: Design and implement automation systems that ensure 99.95%+ uptime across our infrastructure
- Problem Solving: Serve as an active member of the on-call rotation, troubleshooting complex technical challenges across different network environments and censorship scenarios
- Monitoring Excellence: Develop and enhance sophisticated monitoring and alerting systems that provide real-time visibility into our global infrastructure
- Technical Implementation: Engineer solutions to improve connectivity, stability, performance, scalability, security, and resilience—particularly in adversarial network environments
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Leadership
Andy Yen
(Founder & CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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