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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.\nThe Vinted Group is made up of three business units that support this mission:\nVinted 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.\nVinted 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.\nVinted 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.\nFounded 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. \nInformation about the position \nAs a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II on the Kafka team, you'll build and operate the software and infrastructure behind one of Vinted's busiest platforms. The Kafka platform spans multiple data centers and regions across the EU and US, 1000+ Kafka brokers across multiple clusters.\nYou'll develop Kafka as a managed service, automation and client libraries, primarily using Go, Ruby and Java. 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It suits an experienced, hands-on engineer who wants to work on large-scale infrastructure.\nIn this position, you’ll \nDesign and develop managed services and automation for the Kafka platform.\nBuild and operate reliable, scalable services on both bare metal and Kubernetes.\nLead technical initiatives from design to production, solving complex software and infrastructure problems along the way.\nLead high-impact, complex, multi-datacenter projects (e.g., cross-region replication topologies, storage lifecycle management).\nWork with Compute/Kubernetes, Production Engineering, Hardware Operations, and Product teams to deliver seamless Kafka APIs and client integrations.\nPartner closely with the Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager to define the architectural roadmap for our infrastructure across multiple continents.\nDefine and own SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for our Kafka fleet, while overseeing the health, performance, and maintenance of our clusters.\nTackle the realities of running high-throughput, multi-datacenter infrastructure - optimizing systems for resilience, low latency, and efficient resource utilization.\nParticipate in the on-call rotation, currently once every five to seven weeks.\nKey Tech Stack: Storage: Ceph (RGW, RADOS) (tiered storage) with S3 API, Kubernetes persistent volumes, physical disks; Languages & Services: Go, Ruby, Java; Platform & Infra: Bare-metal Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Chef; Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Datadog.\nAbout you \nHave strong backend software engineering and system design skills, ideally with production experience in Go; experience with other backend languages is also welcome.\nHave hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting services on bare metal and Kubernetes.\nDesigned and maintained distributed systems throughout their production lifecycle.\nUnderstand reliability, scalability, monitoring, safe deployments, and failure recovery.\nHave infrastructure operations or site reliability experience, or are motivated to develop these skills and participate in on-call.\nCommunicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate effectively across teams, and have excellent written and spoken English.\nWork perks \nThe opportunity to benefit from our share options programme\n25 working days of holiday\nAccess to all the tools & tech needed for work\nHome office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture\nPrivate health insurance\nConfidential Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family\nFrequent team-building events\nA personal monthly budget for shopping on Vinted\nA dog-friendly office\nIn Vilnius office: Gym & in-house meals at friendly prices\nIn Kaunas office: a monthly lunch allowance, and a once-a-week provided in-house lunch and breakfast\nWorking at Vinted \nWorkation policy\nBetter balance holidays with workdays by working remotely! Up to 90 days per year in the EU, of these, 21 days can be spent globally. For non-EU citizens, it's 21 days worldwide. This can be combined with time off for vacation or personal time.\nIndividual learning budget\nEach year, you’ll be given a learning budget (starting at €3,000), and a total of up to 10 working days over a 2-year period to support your personal and professional development.\nHybrid work\nOur hybrid model, with 2 recommended office days a week, gives you and your team the flexibility to decide if and when you want to work from home, and when to catch up in person.\nEqual opportunity\nWe welcome applications from everybody, regardless of your background, identity, or life experiences. Job openings come with guides, not checklists. 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