System Engineer | Email Team
Hostinger
System Engineer | Email Team
Join Hostinger, and we’ll grow fast!
We’re shaping the future of online success - powered by AI and driven by people. With 900+ talented professionals and over 4 million clients in 150 countries, we help creators and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life faster and easier than ever before.
Our mission: To provide tools that help individuals and small businesses succeed online faster and easier.
Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles
Our formula for success: Customer obsession, innovative products, and talented teams.
Your role at Hostinger
We're looking for a System Engineer to help us build and run Hostinger's email platform - the infrastructure behind millions of mailboxes, and behind every message our clients send and receive.
It's one of the few places left where a single team owns the whole stack end to end - compute, storage, networking, and the services running on top of it. Email is what makes that infrastructure hard: it's stateful, latency-sensitive, adversarial, and it never stops. You'll join at a point where large parts of the platform are being modernized, so there's genuine architectural work ahead - not just maintenance of someone else's decisions.
This isn't a role where you follow playbooks - you'll write them.
Curious to learn more? Connect with your team: Edgaras Lukoševičius, Engineering Manager, Email Hosting.
Your day-to-day
Build and scale the infrastructure behind the service. Design and operate the systems that carry millions of messages a day - compute, networking, routing, and throughput - at a volume where a fraction of a percent is thousands of clients.
Run storage at scale. Petabytes of customer data across a distributed storage fleet: capacity planning, performance tuning, backups, and data integrity.
Automate everything you touch. Our infrastructure lives in code. If you did it manually twice, the third time should be a pull request.
Engineer how we ship. Build the testing and deployment pipeline that lets a platform this large change safely - infrastructure tests, preflight checks, progressive rollouts. Confident releases are an engineering achievement, not an accident.
Own monitoring and observability. Metrics, logs, SLOs, and alerting - build the systems that surface a problem while it's still small, so it's solved before anyone notices it.
Fight spam and abuse. Tune the filtering engines, rate limits, and authentication that stand between millions of mailboxes and everyone trying to get into them.
Solve problems at the root. When something surfaces, the interesting question isn't how to close the ticket - it's what change makes that entire class of problem stop happening.
Share what you learn. Review code, write the runbook, explain the failure mode. The team gets stronger, or it doesn't scale.
Your skills and experience
Strong Linux experience (5+ years) - deep and hands-on, not just comfortable at a shell.
On-prem and cloud. We run most of our systems on our own hardware, with parts in the cloud (GCP, AWS, Cloudflare). We're looking for either a strong on-prem and virtualization background (Proxmox, KVM, bare metal) with cloud exposure, or a strong cloud background with real hands-on on-prem experience.
Infrastructure as Code - Ansible, Terraform, or equivalents. You trust automation, and know how to do it right.
Programming or scripting in Go or Python (bonus if both). Occasionally Lua or Rust show up too - we're happy to lean on AI for the long tail.
Production experience with databases, caches, and queues - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, Memcached, or similar.
Containers and orchestration - you've experience running workloads on Kubernetes and Docker
Storage fundamentals - filesystems, distributed storage, replication (Ceph or similar) is a plus
Networking fundamentals - DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, HTTP, and routing.
Nice-to-haves
Hands-on experience with an MTA at scale - Postfix, Exim, KumoMTA, GreenArrow, PowerMTA, ZoneMTA, or similar.
Experience running an IMAP/mail store - Dovecot, Cyrus, or equivalent.
Spam filtering and email security tooling - Rspamd, SpamAssassin, or similar.
Understanding of email authentication and deliverability - SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC, rDNS, blocklists, feedback loops.
Experience with IP reputation, warmup, or high-volume sending.
Familiarity with data pipeline and analytics tooling - ClickHouse, Kafka/Redpanda, Flink.
CI/CD beyond GitHub Actions, and open-source contributions.
Certifications like RHCSA or RHCE.
Benefits for you
360 Growth: We provide limitless learning opportunities: access to platforms like Reforge and Coach Hub, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, feedback culture, and mentoring through TesoXchange. Advance your career with internal mobility and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success.
Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms: from modern offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, the comfort of home, or anywhere in the world. Enjoy flexibility in managing your schedule and bring your ideas to life in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Wellness simplified: Your health comes first with insurance from Day 1, gym memberships, recharge leave, Headspace subscriptions, and regular health checks. Join our wellbeing-dedicated events, sports, arts, and hobby clubs, or simply enjoy the balance of a lifestyle that prioritizes wellness.
Work hard - play hard: Celebrate your achievements with company events like Summerfest & Winterfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-buildings, and workations. Enjoy access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge and celebrate life’s big moments with milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations.
Compensation
Gross salary starting from 5000 EUR (depends on your experience and competencies).
We’re always looking for experienced talent to raise the bar. If you’re excited about the role but the listed salary range doesn’t align with your expectations, we still encourage you to apply - we’re open to adjusting compensation based on the impact and value you bring.
Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger today and be part of our journey
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