Software Engineer | Staff | Python | Threat Intelligence

Department: NordVPN

Location: Vilnius

Employment Type: FullTime

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.

Main Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the long-term technical vision for data curation, ingestion, and processing platforms within the Threat Intelligence domain, ensuring architectural consistency and sustainable system evolution.

• Lead the design of large-scale distributed systems, including computing pipelines, microservices, data contracts, and storage solutions, while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.

• Conduct comprehensive architectural, design, and high-level code reviews, upholding engineering standards, architectural consistency, security requirements, and data quality controls.

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and leadership stakeholders to align architectural direction with organizational strategy and business priorities.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams, supporting their development, removing blockers, and reinforcing best practices.

• Identify, prioritize, and remediate technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks across the platform.

• Strengthen engineering processes by supporting robust testing practices, CI/CD improvements, rigorous documentation culture, deployment reliability, and operational excellence in cloud environments.

Core Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience with Python and backend engineering in high-scale environments.

• At least 3 years of experience in an architectural or cross-team technical leadership role, including designing event-driven architectures, data-intensive pipelines, and an understanding of system trade-offs.

• Strong understanding of databases and data systems, including PostgreSQL and other storage models; demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• High standards of engineering quality, with an emphasis on maintainable, testable, secure, and well-structured code.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.

• Strong commitment to continuous learning, proactive problem identification, and improvement of systems, processes, and engineering practices within the Cyber Threat Intelligence field.

Tools You Will Use

• Python

• Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, ArgoCD

• FastAPI, aiohttp

• PostgreSQL, Redis

• GitLab CI/CD

• AWS (MSK, RDS, EKS, EC2, S3, EMR, KEDA)

Salary Range

• Gross Salary 6600 - 7200 EUR/month

What We Offer

Innovate with industry leaders

Work alongside global experts to build world-leading cybersecurity tools, impacting millions of users around the world.

Learn & grow

Boost your skills via our extensive training programs (online and offline) & other resources. Benefit from mentorship and career-switch opportunities to grow within the company. 

Work in a next-gen Cyber City office

Thrive in our bustling office, featuring ergonomic workspaces, modern meeting rooms, engaging events, and specialty coffee to fuel your day.

Hybrid work

Enjoy the flexibility with 3 office days and working from home for the remaining 2.

Work from anywhere

Recharge with a change of scenery – choose work from any location when you feel a need to power your creativity and drive.

Physical well-being

Boost your health with free-of-charge 24/7 gym access, onsite and online workouts, and consultations led by in-house Physical Well-Being experts. 

Mental & emotional health

Nurture your mind with free psychologist consultations, dedicated mental health events, and premium access to top-rated wellness apps like Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic.

Premium healthcare

Receive private health insurance giving you peace of mind for your health needs.

Extra days off

Enjoy additional vacation days off as you grow with us. Plus, get extra days for sick leave, special occasions, or parenting needs.

Joyful moments – special treats

Celebrate life’s big moments with special gifts from us on your birthday, anniversary, and other major events, such as weddings or the arrival of a new family member.

Company events & team-building

Experience iconic Nord Security celebrations, team-buildings, and knowledge-sharing events, nurturing bonds that fuel our success.

Workation

Embark on a legendary company getaway abroad, filled with exciting activities, live concerts, engaging workshops, and epic time together.

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We expect all candidates to provide accurate and complete information during the recruitment process. While limited use of AI tools to refine application materials is acceptable, candidates remain fully responsible for ensuring that their submissions reflect their own qualifications, skills, and experience. Any failure to do so may negatively affect participation in the recruitment process. If broader AI assistance is allowed for a particular role or stage, we’ll let you know in advance.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that it may be processed using automated tools for evaluation purposes. As part of our recruitment process, we may use an AI-based application review tool to help assess applications based on skills and experience relevant to the role. This technology is used to support - not replace - human decision-making, and every application is ultimately reviewed by a recruiter.

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