Lead Systems Engineer

About Gcore: Gcore is a premier, internationally recognized web infrastructure giant, cloud computing titan, and global artificial intelligence enablement leader operating on an absolute mission to build, protect, and scale the invisible software and hardware foundations that keep the world digital experiences fast, reliable, and secure. Powering everything from ultra-low-latency real-time streaming and interactive communication layers to massive enterprise generative AI clusters and impenetrable web protection frameworks, Gcore commands a hyper-scale edge footprint comprising over 210 distributed edge locations, 50+ cloud availability zones, and thousands of high-performance GPUs globally. Collaborating in lockstep with elite technology pioneers including Intel, NVIDIA, Dell, and Equinix, Gcore fast-moving network of 550+ professionals builds software that empowers the entire internet ecosystem. Driven by a craft-led, high-performance corporate philosophy that values structural automation, shared technical accountability, and an absolute bias toward innovation, the company provides high-agency systems builders with an uncompromised remote canvas to leverage state-of-the-art Infrastructure-as-Code setups, manipulate bare-metal kernels, and deploy agentic computing workflows safely across Poland, Serbia, Cyprus, and Georgia.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, detail-obsessed, and infrastructure-minded Lead Systems Engineer to join our core centralized Edge Network division in a full-time remote capacity open exclusively to qualified technical engineering leaders resident within Poland, Serbia, Cyprus, or Georgia. Operating at the foundational core of our global high-concurrency content delivery and AI processing networks, you will step up to claim true individual operational and strategic accountability for overseeing, designing, managing, and optimizing our distributed server clusters. Shifting completely away from routine visual template skinning, basic web-form formatting, simple database entry logging, or disconnected manual patch copying, you will run an active systems architecture and site reliability laboratory—partnering face-to-face with cross-functional R&D, Product, Network, and Security pods. This position requires an internet technology or cloud infrastructure veteran with 6+ years of craft depth who maps out automated server provisioning fluidly natively using DevOps pipelines, develops low-overhead operational tooling smoothly natively using Python or Go runtime automations, and commands rigid system-hardening protocols and agentic workflows confidently under strict high-availability SLAs.

Key Responsibilities

• Edge Infrastructure Strategy and Design: Lead the technical architecture, deployment, and structural maintenance of our distributed edge infrastructure nodes, configuring multi-tenant physical bare-metal and cloud servers cleanly natively utilizing DevOps automation practices.
• High-Availability System Hardening: Enforce and supervise strict system-level security protections, performance tuning metrics, and failover frameworks across all connected *nix nodes to guarantee uncompromised performance defaults.
• Meticulous Provisioning Automation: Formulate, test, and implement end-to-end automated system provisioning, infrastructure monitoring, and programmatic configuration routines cleanly natively leveraging DevOps templates (including Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet).
• Advanced Tooling and Agentic Scripting: Program, maintain, and expand custom operational scripts and platform extensions smoothly natively using Python, Bash, or Go environments, integrating next-generation agentic coding models to optimize deployment loops.
• Technical Team Mentoring and Direction: Provide clear technical goals, engineering directions, continuous architectural reviews, and professional growth support to a distributed collective of systems engineers.
• Rigorous Observability and Incident Management: Establish and enforce unified best practices for platform telemetry, log analysis, and automated monitoring setups (leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, and Victoria Logs blocks), while participating in on-call engineering rotations.
• Cross-Functional Architecture Realignment: Collaborate hand-in-hand with distributed Research & Development, Network Routing, and Core Security cells to identify process bottlenecks and eliminate delivery friction points.
• Emerging Technology Evaluation: Conduct structured evaluations of raw computing technologies and software frameworks to recommend ongoing hardware improvements to our infrastructure arrays.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• A minimum of 6 years of verified professional history running advanced systems engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), distributed data infrastructure architecture, cloud automation programming, or technical systems consulting.
• Mandatory Team Leadership Experience: A minimum of 3 years of dedicated career experience explicitly operating in a leadership capacity, managing engineering cohorts, defining sprint goals, or serving as a technical team lead.
• Expert-tier capability writing reusable declarative playbooks, managing infrastructure blueprints, and managing multi-tenant clusters natively utilizing DevOps architectures.
• Practical operational familiarity organizing conditional script loops, optimizing utility code blocks, and parsing system data streams natively using Python or Bash frameworks.
• Authoritative technical grasp of Linux operating system internals, shell utilities, multi-tenant network abstractions, and remote file server configurations.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and scannable technical-documentation communication traits in business-fluent English, enabling absolute clarity when presenting system data models across a multi-cultural enterprise.
• Contractual Framework Requirement: This executive infrastructure position is available solely under a formal employment (labor) agreement within our designated regional entities.
• Location Context: Position open exclusively to qualified infrastructure engineering leaders based permanently and resident within the borders of Poland, Serbia, Cyprus, or Georgia to operate under a remote work-from-home layout.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior commercial media delivery or core cloud engineering history operating explicitly inside or adjacent to international Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), high-volume cloud hosting centers, or bare-metal edge environments.
• Direct hands-on programming experience coding within compiled or low-level performance-oriented languages (such as C, Go, or Rust).
• Technical command over Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing architectures, layer-7 firewalls, web application security primitives, and deep Prometheus/Grafana matrix integrations.
• An outcome-driven personal philosophy rooted in high systems thinking, a collaborative leadership style centered around mutual performance growth, and an intense passion for building automated cloud systems that connect the world to AI seamlessly.

What We Offer

• Vetted Global Infrastructure Salaried Blueprint: A competitive full-time baseline annual corporate salary pack calibrated precisely to evaluate your systems engineering authority, team lead capability, and infrastructure depth, supplemented by comprehensive location-specific benefits tracks.
• The exceptional professional canvas to claim absolute infrastructure code authorship over the edge systems power-routing content and AI computations for millions of users worldwide.
• Profound work-from-home remote options offering a flexible remote or hybrid layout, complete scheduling trust, and zero physical geographic office commuting friction out of any state.
• An exceptional digital nomad enablement perk, permitting full authorization to **work from anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year**.
• Immediate baseline entry into a comprehensive group health insurance structure, providing premium private medical insurance coverages for you and your family.
• Access to elite personal and career upskilling advantages, featuring company-paid corporate language courses, specialized structural support funds for life important moments, extra paid vacation and sick leave days, and beautifully modern welcoming offices equipped with snacks, drinks, and team sports structures for regional hybrid squads.