System Engineer | Web Hosting | Based in Lithuania

Join the team building an AI-first company.Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries, but we're still excited about what we're creating next.AI is changing how we build products, support customers, work together, and solve problems. It helps us move faster, spend less time on repetitive work, and focus on bigger ideas.If you want your work to influence both what we build and how we build it, we'd like to meet you.Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles Your role at HostingerAs System Engineer, you'll work alongside other system, software, and network engineers who care deeply about performance, simplicity, and resilience - together designing, running, and evolving systems that don't just work, but stay fast and dependable under pressure. This isn't a role where you follow playbooks - you'll write them, digging into the details, automating what slows the team down, and sharing what you learn so everyone gets stronger.Curious to learn more? Connect with your team: Eimantas Šerpenskas, Head of Web Hosting InfrastructureYour day-to-day

• Design, develop, and implement new features that make our hosting platform faster, more reliable, and easier to scale.
• Deploy and run infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation, because manual work doesn’t scale, and neither do shortcuts.
• Operate and observe systems through real metrics: availability, latency, performance, capacity, reliability - understanding the “why” behind every graph.
• Refine and tune systems to eliminate bottlenecks, simplify complexity, and improve reliability without adding overhead.
• Improve monitoring and alerting, aiming to catch symptoms before they turn into outages.
• Share knowledge with other engineers - guiding, reviewing, and helping raise the bar for how we build and maintain reliable systems.

• Strong Linux OS experience (3+ years).
• Ansible proficiency - you trust automation, and know how to do it right.
• Programming or scripting skills in Python or Go (bonus if both).
• Experience managing and optimizing web servers, databases, and caching systems.
• Familiarity with cloud environments like GCP (or similar).
• Solid grasp of networking fundamentals - DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP.
• Experience applying Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools.

Nice to have

• Experience with DevOps practices and open-source contributions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools beyond GitHub Actions.
• Ability to read and understand Go and PHP code.
• Certifications like RHCSA or RHCE.

• 360 Growth: We provide : access to platforms like Reforge and CoachHub, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, limitless learning opportunities, and mentoring through feedback culture. Advance your career with internal mobility and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success.
• TesoXchange
• Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms: from modern offices in Kaunas and Vilnius, the comfort of home, or anywhere in the world. Enjoy flexibility in managing your schedule and bring your ideas to life in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Wellness simplified: Your health comes first with insurance from Day 1, gym memberships, recharge leave, subscriptions, and regular health checks. Join our wellbeing-dedicated events, sports, arts, and hobby clubs, or simply enjoy the balance of a lifestyle that prioritizes wellness.
• Work hard – play hard: Celebrate your achievements with company events like & Summerfest, Town Hall, Meet the Client initiatives, team-buildings, and workations. Enjoy access to the Žalgiris Arena VIP Lounge and celebrate life’s big moments with milestone gifts for weddings, new parenthood, and graduations.