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Site Reliability Engineer, Hardware at Vinted in Kaunas, Lithuania
Job Description
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 Site Reliability Engineer on the Hardware team, you’ll be responsible for maintaining 10,000+ servers across Vinted’s data centers.
You’ll help monitor and debug production servers to ensure we meet our established SLOs. This will involve diving deep into hardware configuration, BIOS, BMC, and Linux systems to identify bugs, troubleshoot issues, and test performance. You’ll also automate server provisioning, build Grafana dashboards, and set up monitoring alerts.
You’ll work closely with data center administrators, who handle physical server repairs, helping them identify issues and validate fixes after repairs are completed. You’ll also collaborate with other teams to support them with hardware - and software-related challenges.
In this position, you’ll
- Lead data center infrastructure reliability initiatives across 10,000+ physical servers.
- Build up automation tooling for server provisioning, configuration management, testing, and large-scale deployments.
- Create scripts, tools, and workflows to reduce manual operational work and improve infrastructure efficiency.
- Assist with troubleshooting hardware, BIOS, BMC, Redfish, Linux OS, networking, and performance-related issues.
- Communicate with infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams to support secure, scalable, and performant services.
- Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotation.
- Monitor data center infrastructure, server health, SLOs, Grafana dashboards, alerts, and production systems.
- Oversee testing and benchmarking of new server hardware, CPU, and GPU models.
- Keep track of data center assets, hardware configurations, and infrastructure documentation in DCIM/NetBox.
- Work with the Platform Foundations DC team to create reliable, automated, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Maintain configuration-as-code repositories and automated tests.
- Improve server provisioning and configurations.
- Support other engineering teams who are running their services on servers.
- Collaborate with engineers to identify infrastructure bottlenecks and implement long-term improvements.
About you
- Have experience with large-scale physical servers infrastructure and linux operating systems.
- Have a strong understanding of hardware automation and monitoring.
- Care deeply about scalability and production stability.
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Comfortable with production troubleshooting, debugging, and participation in an on-call rotation.
- Good at analyzing performance issues and benchmarking new hardware.
- Well-versed in Grafana and monitoring tools.
- Advantage: Knowledge of Chef
- Advantage: Experience in/with Netbox.
Work perks
- The opportunity to benefit from our share options program
- 25 working days of holiday
- Access to all the tools & tech needed for work
- Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
- Private health insurance
- Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
- Frequent team-building events
- A personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted
- The opportunity to spend up to 90 days per year - 21 of which can be spent working outside of the EU - on workation
- A dog-friendly office
- In Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices
- In 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 the 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.