At Proton, privacy is a fundamental human right and the cornerstone of democracy. Since 2014, Proton has provided free and open-source technology to millions worldwide, ensuring access to privacy, security, and freedom online. The Application Edge team manages user-facing production infrastructure across both on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance delivery of Proton’s most critical traffic. The team tackles global challenges in traffic flow management, load balancing, and application service control at scale, embracing SRE principles—automation, reliability, and performance—to develop and operate infrastructure that scales with Proton’s growing user base.
Tasks
- Design, build, and operate resilient application and traffic management systems for Proton’s most critical production services.
- Develop and maintain automation tools to enhance deployment processes, configuration management, and service reliability.
- Ensure availability and performance of production services through load balancing, network optimization, and failure recovery strategies.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response to maintain high availability and rapid issue resolution.
- Optimize and scale Proton’s hybrid infrastructure, spanning on-premises and cloud-based deployments.
- Collaborate with product and security teams to implement best practices for privacy and data protection at every layer of the stack.
- Document and share knowledge to foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the team and beyond.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a similar field, or the equivalent practical experience.
- Strong knowledge of networking, including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP/HTTPS traffic management.
- Experience deploying, tuning, and maintaining high-performance load balancing solutions (e.g., HAProxy, Envoy, Traefik).
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
- Experience with software development and automation in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Rust, Go).
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across network, application, and system layers.
- A strong security mindset, with an understanding of secure infrastructure practices.
- Bonus points for hands-on experience with traffic shaping, rate limiting, and DDoS mitigation strategies.
- Bonus points for deep expertise in Kubernetes service optimization and management.
- Bonus points for experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Bonus points for familiarity with privacy-focused infrastructure challenges and solutions.
Benefits
- Office First: Collaboration is easier and more effective in person, with offices in Geneva, Zurich, Prague, Barcelona, Paris, London, Vilnius, Skopje, and Taipei. Work from home up to 30% of the time, with three core days in the office.
- Technology: All devices and software needed to excel in your role are provided.
- Food: Lunch and snacks provided every day at offices.
- Transport: Support for transport costs through subsidized public transport, bike allowances, or parking spaces based on office location.
- Salary Range (Paris): Base annual gross 50,000€ to 77,000€, with final compensation determined based on qualifications, skills, and previous experience.
- Stock Options: All employees receive stock options upon joining.
- Flexible Working: Define your own working hours as long as it works with team meetings.
- Learning and Development: Various learning opportunities, including training programs, conferences, events, and continual learning.
- Employee Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance plans, competitive retirement savings options, generous vacation and leave policies, and wellness programs.
- Work that Matters: Proton is a community-first organization, with over 100 million people trusting and supporting Proton.
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Das Team
The Application Edge team manages user-facing production infrastructure across both on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliable, secure, and high-performance delivery of Proton’s most critical traffic. The team collaborates with product and security teams and fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.