Junior Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineering

Brief info about Vinted

Vinted Marketplace is the largest online international C2C marketplace in Europe dedicated to second-hand fashion, with millions of registered members spanning 20+ markets in Europe and North America. With a mission to make second-hand the first choice worldwide, Vinted enables people to sell and buy second-hand clothes and lifestyle items from each other, helping give those items a second or even third life.

Vinted Go launched in 2022, with a focus on developing products and solutions for more seamless shipping and delivery across Europe. Vinted Go has connected more than 40 carriers and more than 200,000 PUDO points across Europe to support the delivery of millions of parcels per year.

The Vinted Group, composed of Vinted Marketplace and Vinted Go, is headquartered in Vilnius, with workplaces in Germany, Lithuania, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and over 2,000 employees. It is backed by six leading venture capital firms: Accel, Burda Principal Investments, EQT Growth, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Sprints Capital.

Information about the position

We are looking for a Junior Site Reliability Engineer to help evolve and maintain Vinted’s infrastructure. Currently, we manage over 7,000 physical servers running multiple platforms across various regions. We also use multiple cloud providers to extend our on-premises infrastructure.

Here are some of the technologies we use (with links to our blog!): Rocky Linux, Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Ruby, Go, MySQL, Vitess, Elasticsearch, Ceph, Cumulus Linux, Consul, Vault, Mcrouter, Memcached, Etcd, Redis, Kafka, Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Nginx, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Argo CD, and others.

In this position, you could work on:

• Building and managing Kubernetes infrastructure and tooling for a scalable and resilient computing platform.
• Automating physical infrastructure provisioning, configuring data center networks and VPNs, managing DNS and domains, and handling edge systems like CDNs and load balancers.
• Managing cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt across AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, and other providers.
• Designing, scaling, and operating distributed storage systems like Ceph, Redis, Memcached, Elasticsearch, and Etcd — often beyond official limitations and documented practices.
• Scaling database clusters (Vitess, MySQL) by introducing new sharding strategies, adapting products to support them, and helping product teams solve database-related challenges.
• Supporting event-driven architectures with Kafka, Flink, and Schema Registry to enable stream processing, reliable messaging, and data consistency across systems.
  
  

If any of the above areas interest you, let’s talk!

About You

• You have a programming-focused background and practical experience relevant to the role.
• You’re a curious individual, motivated to grow, and eager to learn and master the concepts and technologies we use.
• You’re familiar with parts of our tech stack or have experience with similar technologies.
• Knowledge of Linux, cloud platforms, or containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is an advantage.
• You’re proficient in English, both written and spoken.
  
  

Work perks

• The opportunity to benefit from our share options programme
• 25 working days of holiday
• Newest MacBook models
• Free access to an office gym
• Mental and emotional health support through the Mindletic app
• Home office support: we provide IT workstation equipment and a personal budget of up to €540 for home workplace furniture
• Private health insurance
• On-site canteen serving delicious homemade food at friendly prices
• 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
  
  

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.

The salary range for this position is € 2,575 - € €3,492 gross per month.