Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, Observability Infrastructure

Brief Info About Vinted Our 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. Information About The Position As a Senior SRE Engineer II in the Observability Infra team, you’ll build and operate the software and infrastructure behind Vinted’s observability platforms. These platforms process metrics, logs, and traces from more than 7,000 physical servers and more than 30 kubernetes clusters across multiple regions. You’ll develop backend services,libraries, APIs, automation, and self-service capabilities, primarily using Go and Kubernetes. You’ll take ownership of solutions throughout their lifecycle: from technical design and implementation to deployment and production operation and help shape the team’s technical direction. This role is suited to an experienced backend engineer with hands-on Kubernetes experience who wants to work on large-scale infrastructure. Previous infrastructure operations or site reliability experience is valuable, but you can develop this expertise in the role if you have strong software engineering fundamentals and are motivated to take operational ownership. In this position, you’ll Design and develop backend services, APIs, and automation for Vinted’s observability platforms. Build and operate reliable, scalable services and stateful workloads on Kubernetes. Develop self-service capabilities for engineering teams using our metrics, logs, and tracing products. Evolve our Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry, and Elasticsearch-based platforms. Lead technical initiatives from design to production, solving complex software and infrastructure problems along the way. Participate in the on-call rotation for observability products, currently approximately once every five to seven weeks. Our technologies include Go, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Thanos, Elasticsearch, Opensearch, Doris, Vector, Jaeger, Grafana, ArgoCD, Istio, Kafka, Redis and Linux. About You Have strong backend software engineering and system design skills, ideally with production experience in Go; experience with other backend languages is also welcome. Have hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting services on Kubernetes. Can design maintainable distributed systems and own them throughout their production lifecycle. Understand reliability, scalability, monitoring, safe deployments, and failure recovery. Have infrastructure operations or site reliability experience, or are motivated to develop these skills and participate in on-call. Communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, and have excellent written and spoken English. Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Thanos, Elasticsearch, or other large-scale observability technologies is an advantage. Work perks The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme25 working days of holidayAccess to all the tools & tech needed for workHome office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniturePrivate health insuranceMental and emotional health support through the Mindletic appFrequent 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 officeIn Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly pricesIn Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast Working at Vinted Individual Learning Budget We 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 Work We’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 Opportunity The 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 gross monthly salary range for this position is: €6.767—€9.150 EUR