Platform Engineering Manager at Oxylabs (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Oxylabs· Vilnius, Lithuania·
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Job description
We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.
What’s in store for you: You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:
- 6PB+ Ceph storage
- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems
- 300k+ service requests/sec processed
- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed
The team waiting for you: Oxylabs' Platform is the backbone that lets the rest of engineering move fast and ship reliably. Our code-first approach values solving problems through programming rather than manual processes, and we're impelmenting AI-powered tooling to further enhance our capabilities. We value effective delegation, timely delivery, and incremental improvements. You'll have a significant influence on our DevOps practices and tooling choices.
In this role, you’ll:
- Lead Platform team responsible for Observability/Data area and keep delivery consistent.
- Own people leadership: hire, mentor, and develop engineers; keep the team healthy and performing.
- Manage capacity, risk, and dependencies: plan realistically, unblock fast, and handle escalations early.
- Align scope and priorities with the Director of Infrastructure (DoI): keep stakeholders aligned and avoid churn.
- Stay hands-on as a working Tech Lead: with a team of around 2-3 engineers, you'll carry part of the technical lead role alongside management.
Your skills & experience:
- Proven experience leading an engineering team under one of given roles (Team Lead, Squad Lead, Tech Lead).
- Strong stakeholder management: can translate business needs into a clear plan and keep people aligned.
- Pragmatic, ownership-driven mindset: can make trade-offs, push standards, and improve reliability without slowing the team down.
- Solid technical foundation: hands-on experience with technologies such as MySQL, Kafka/Redpanda, Redis/Valkey, Clickhouse, Victoria Metrics, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
Salary & Benefits:
- Gross salary: 6000 EUR/month - 7600 EUR/gross. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
- Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
- Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
- Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
- Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: career.oxylabs.io/our-work-benefits
Why work at Oxylabs
- Hybrid & flexible work: 3 office days / 2 WFH, plus Work‑From‑Anywhere (WFA) options career.oxylabs.io/life
- Perks & benefits: Private health insurance, 24/7 gym, physical well‑being specialists, psychologist/psychotherapist sessions, inclusive family‑related time‑off policy, extra days off career.oxylabs.io
- Office environment: Cyber City office with modern amenities and latest tools, gadgets, and tech stack.
- Learning & community: Vast internal and external learning resources, guilds, communities of 500+ professionals, and access to the Tesonet network for knowledge sharing career.oxylabs.io
- Engineering culture: Teams work with Python, Node.js, and cutting‑edge infrastructure; engineers tackle large‑scale data challenges career.oxylabs.io/technology