Engineering Manager (VPN)

A better internet, where privacy is the default, is possible. Building this better internet might seem daunting or even unthinkable, but at Proton, this is what we do every day. Proton was founded in 2014 by a group of scientists who met at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Our first product, Proton Mail, is now the world’s largest encrypted email service. Subsequent Proton products, such as Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive, give our users full control over how and with whom their data is shared. Today, Proton makes privacy universally accessible.

Journalists from outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times, some of the world’s largest organizations, and people in more than 180 countries have signed up for over 100 million accounts. Our diverse and dynamic team is made up of more than 500 members representing over 40 different nationalities. While we are based in Geneva, Switzerland, we have offices in Zurich, Prague, London, Vilnius, Skopje, Taipei, and many more employees working remotely around the world. Join one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies to help us solve challenging problems and build new products that will reach hundreds of millions of people.

The Team: Proton VPN's mission is to bring a safer Internet to the World, where freedom of speech and access to global information are available to all. You will be in the driving seat to accelerate our growth and our execution, which is vital for Proton VPN to keep funding the expansion of our free product in the world. The VPN Business Unit is growing quickly, thanks to Proton VPN's rise in the consumer market and its expansion in the B2B space, with enterprises and governmental agencies seeking to secure their activities, and new partnerships opening up.

Current Projects:

• Extending our B2B offer with new features to continue growing in this new market
• Working with partners to increase brand awareness and provide Proton VPN to new customers with minimal friction
• Support the products with tools designed to increase conversion and retention e.g. through a customizable notification framework built around user’s lifecycle
• Adopting new technical standards and best practices to prevent and handle service disruptions through proper planning, observability, and alerting.
• Ensuring our back-end scales with the business growth by reviewing our architecture, API contracts, data models, and caching layers.

Tech Stack and Tools: PHP / Symfony, MySQL, Redis, Typescript, React, Docker

How you can have impact:

• Contribute to the company’s strategic vision by aligning engineering goals with the overall business strategy
• Lead strategic projects that require cross-functional input and coordination to achieve major company milestones
• Establish and optimize Agile/Scrum methodologies to increase the efficiency and output of engineering teams
• Drive the development and implementation of scalable architectures and infrastructures that support exponential user growth

What you will do:

• Work with product and engineering stakeholders to build short and long-term roadmaps with user-centric milestones
• Manage each engineer's performance and career by providing actionable and timely feedback and distributing opportunities fairly across the team
• Drive the hiring and onboarding of new team members by providing them with a clear plan and ensuring quick integration into our organization
• Build a highly collaborative environment where opportunities are regularly discussed and everyone's voice is considered for improving the status quo
• Promote a team of resiliency by eliminating knowledge silos and rotating scrum and project management duties across the engineers and product owners
• Participate in design documents, proposals, and code reviews to unblock the team and shorten feedback loops

Job requirements:

• Experience leading large and complex projects as a backend engineer
• Experience managing a team of engineers and coaching them on their career development
• Familiarity with agile and scrum best practices
• Experience breaking down large initiatives into smaller, user-centric milestones
• Experience communicating with product owners and stakeholders to ensure team alignment with business objectives
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in a relevant field of study

Even if you don’t meet all the requirements listed above, but feel you could still be a great fit, please still apply.

Why should you join Proton?

• Be part of a movement - Proton is not just a product or service but a community-driven movement united by a shared vision of online freedom. Our services are open source, audited, and supported by community contributions.
• Work with smart and dedicated people - Our team is diverse, collaborative, and tight-knit with people coming from all walks of life, including many of the world’s top academic institutions and organizations.
• Join a strong brand - Our encrypted email service - ProtonMail - has grown to be a staple of online security and privacy.
• Grow with us - We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups, doubling in size every year.
• Have your voice heard - We value your opinion and encourage you to speak up and share your ideas and thoughts.

Benefits – these vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours, company events and team building activities.