SRE Manager (VPN) at Proton in Genève

Keywords

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Proton VPN
• Automation
• Observability
• Linux
• Team Leadership

Summary

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team for Proton VPN in Genève. Drive automation and observability for a large-scale, privacy-focused infrastructure.

Job Description

Proton is a privacy-focused technology company founded by CERN scientists, offering encrypted services like Proton Mail and Proton VPN. The VPN team operates a global fleet of bare-metal servers to provide secure internet access, particularly in censored regions. As an SRE Manager, you will lead a team of eight engineers responsible for the reliability and evolution of this critical infrastructure.

Your tasks

• Manage and develop a team of eight site reliability engineers.
• Lead the transition from manual operations to automated provisioning, deployment, and repair processes.
• Enhance observability to monitor user experience and throughput across different countries.
• Own service reliability, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and postmortems.
• Set engineering standards and coach engineers on solving operational problems with software.
• Plan capacity and new locations in collaboration with product engineering and infrastructure teams.

Your profile

• Several years of experience managing site reliability, infrastructure, or platform teams.
• Strong technical judgment on large Linux fleets, including the ability to review Python and Ansible code.
• Experience owning the reliability of production services and building monitoring systems.
• Proven track record in developing engineers and addressing underperformance.
• Clear writing skills for strategy documents and incident reports.
• Commitment to privacy principles, including operating without logging user activity.

What we offer

• Stock options from day one, making you a real owner of the company.
• Access to the right hardware and software to do your best work.
• Strong health coverage, retirement options, and generous leave policies.
• Opportunities for rapid career acceleration through real ownership and challenges.