System Engineer

Hostinger

United States

October 27, 2025

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System Engineer

Vilnius / Kaunas
Engineering /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Join Hostinger and we’ll grow fast! 🚀

Is there a limit to growth? Not at Hostinger. 

We’re constantly reaching new heights. With a team of 900 professionals, we are behind the success of over 4 million clients in 150 countries, helping them launch their e-shops, blogs, portfolios, businesses, and passion projects. 

Our mission: To build world-class solutions for anyone to easily succeed online
Our culture: Guided by
Our formula for success: Customer obsession, innovative products, and talented teams.

We’re looking for a System Engineer to help us solve real engineering challenges, keep our systems reliable, and build the foundation that powers millions of websites around the world.

You’ll work alongside other System, Software, and Network Engineers - people who care deeply about performance, simplicity, and resilience. Together, you’ll design, run, and evolve 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. You’ll dig into the details, automate what slows us down, and share what you learn so the whole team gets stronger.

Curious to learn more? Connect with your team: , Head of Web Hosting Infrastructure

Your 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.

Your skills and experience

    • 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.

Soft skills that matter here

    • Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking.
    • A proactive, curious mindset - eager to explore, break, and rebuild better systems.
    • Ownership and accountability for your work - you see things through.
    • Collaboration and clear communication across technical teams.
    • Adaptability in a fast-moving, ever-evolving environment.
    • Attention to detail and a commitment to reliability and quality.

Nice-to-haves

    • 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.

Benefits for you

    • 🚀 360 Growth: We provide : access to platforms like Reforge and Couch Hub, global conferences, physical and digital libraries, , and mentoring through . Advance your career with internal mobility and grow with a team eager to share knowledge and support your success.
    • 🎯 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 - party hard: Recognize hard work with company events like & , 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.

Compensation

    • Gross salary starting from 5000 EUR (depends on your experience and competencies).
Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger today and be part of our journey 🚀

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