Senior SRE or DevOps engineer in networking-heavy infrastructure (Remote)

Oxylabs; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 97,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxylabs is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to own and evolve Webshare's production infrastructure. You will lead the on-prem migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, maintain high availability across hundreds of servers and ~50 services, and drive observability with the team.

You will establish IaC practices, ensure CI/CD reliability, and participate in on-call rotations. Candidates should excel in scripting and have hands-on K8s in bare-metal environments.

Qualifications

• Built and operated highly available infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in self-hosted or bare-metal environments.
• Proficient with Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Proactive, communicates issues before being asked.
• Scripting and software development skills.

Responsibilities

• Own production infrastructure and drive reliability.
• Lead migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes on premises.
• Maintain high availability across hundreds of servers and ~50 services.
• Drive observability with the development team.
• Establish IaC and CI/CD pipeline reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotation with backend engineers.
• Respond to incidents, run post-mortems, drive remediation.
• Contribute to platform tooling to reduce infra toil.
• Own infrastructure together with backend engineers.

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting

Proactive

Backend awareness

Tools

Python

Go

Job description

Webshare is an enterprise-grade proxy platform delivering fast, self-service access to over 80 million global IPs across 195 countries. Built for extreme reliability with 99.97% network uptime, it enables tens of thousands of businesses worldwide to run large-scale web scraping, market research, and automated data collection through dev-friendly APIs.

In this role, you’ll:

• Own and evolve Webshare’s production infrastructure.
• Lead the migration from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes on premises.
• Maintain high availability across hundreds of servers and ~50 services.
• Drive observability in cooperation with the development team.
• Establish and enforce IaC practices, CI/CD pipeline reliability.
• Participate in the on-call rotation alongside backend engineers.
• Respond to and lead to an infrastructure incident resolution, run post-mortems and drive systematic remediation.
• Contribute to platform tooling that improves developer experience and reduces infrastructure toil.
• Own infrastructure together with a strong team of backend engineers.

Your skills & experience:

• Have built and operated highly available infrastructure at a scale: hundreds of servers, dozens of services, real production load.
• Hands-on K8s in self-hosted / bare-metal environments.
• Confident with Infrastructure as Code.
• Proactive, surfaces problems before being asked, keeps the team informed without prompting.
• Scripting and development skills.

Nice to have:

• Led at least one major infrastructure migration - planned, executed, and stabilised it.
• Python and/or Go familiarity - backend is Python, edge services are Go.
• Exposure to proxy, networking-heavy infrastructure.
• Previous experience in a small team where developers shared infrastructure responsibility.
• Familiarity with edge clusters or split compute/edge architectures.

Salary & Benefits:

• Gross salary: From 7000 EUR/ gross + quarterly KPI-based performance bonus. 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, gym allowance and a wellness app.
• Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.