The world’s most advanced VPN, and a whole lot more.
If you’re a curious problem-solver who carves their own path, join the team behind Threat Protection Pro, the NordLynx protocol, and the fastest VPN on the planet—tools that put privacy, security, and control back in people’s hands.
Your impact? Helping millions take back control of their online security, privacy, and data.
NordVPN serves millions of users through a global edge network. Your number one responsibility is content accessibility - making sure traffic reaches users reliably, quickly, and securely, everywhere in the world.
You'll work at the intersection of networking, load balancing, and traffic shaping. When something is slow, unreachable, or misbehaving at the protocol level, you're the person who finds out why and fixes it.
Main Responsibilities
Ensure content accessibility across a globally distributed edge infrastructure
Design, operate, and improve load balancing and traffic shaping systems at scale
Troubleshoot connection, latency, and accessibility issues end to end
Own HTTP traffic flow - from client to edge to origin and back
Investigate and resolve website and service reachability problems
Work across protocol layers to diagnose issues at the right depth
Core Requirements
Load balancing and traffic shaping - architecture, algorithms, health checking, failover
NGINX and/or HAProxy - configuration, tuning, debugging in high-traffic environments
Networking fundamentals - DNS, routing, firewall, packet capture and analysis
OSI model fluency - comfortable working across L3–L7, TCP internals, SSL/TLS handshake and termination
SaltStack
Linux administration
Python programming - automation, tooling, scripting
Troubleshooting network and application-layer issues in production at scale
Observability knowledge - metrics, logging, and monitoring for traffic systems
Docker knowledge - full lifecycle and dependency management with advanced networking
Bonus Points For
Advanced networking - anycast, BGP, traffic engineering at the network layer
Deep understanding of the HTTP protocol - HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, connection lifecycle
Proxy protocols - PROXY protocol v1/v2, reverse proxy patterns, header propagation
Salary Range
Gross Salary 5800-7400 EUR/Month
