Head of Engineering

Oxylabs | General | Web data scraping and proxy technology

On-site

Full Time

Lithuania, Vilnius

from €7000 EUR/mo

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:

You’ll be solving complex challenges and maintaining our own infrastructure with 60PB+ monthly data traffic. Here are its scale and maturity in numbers:

- 6PB+ Ceph storage

- 60PB+ monthly data traffic through our systems

- 300k+ service requests/sec processed

- 500k+ Kafka messages/sec streamed

In this role, you’ll:

Own the technical direction of the whole Webshare product engineering function.
Lead people management (hiring, growth, performance, salary reviews) for a team of 8–10 senior engineers, driving delivery according to business priorities and ensuring the right team ambition according to capacity.
Champion team health: Catch problems early, don't wait for retros.
Ensure team skill composition matches product direction across the engineering org.
Own delivery outcomes: PM defines what/why; you own how/when/who.
Accept work from PM, push back when specs aren't ready.
Report delivery expectations, status and flags to business.
Balance features, experiments, tech debt, bug fixes.
Remove impediments: cross-team deps, infra blockers, unclear requirements.
Drive technical excellence: code review culture, testing, observability.
Maintain infrastructure reliability (650B+ req/month, 300K+ req/sec - uptime is existential).
Set engineering standards and own architecture decisions across product engineering; drive alignment on strategic technical bets.
Navigate tech debt decisions: when to pay down, when to live with it.

Your skills & experience:

Product sensibility: understands why, not just how.
Comfortable with high-autonomy engineering cultures.
Technical background.
Fluent English (international team).

Nice to have:

Experience in System Architecture.
SaaS / API / developer tools experience.
Python ecosystem (Django, async Python) experience.
High-throughput distributed systems (billions-scale) experience.
Knowledge of proxy, scraping, or data collection industry.

Salary & Benefits:

Gross salary: From 7000 EUR/gross + quarterly KPI-based performance bonus. Keep in mind that we are open to discussing a different salary based on your skills and experience.
Growth & Learning: 40+ internal learning options, external conferences, mentorship, and year-round knowledge-sharing.
Health & Well-being: Private health insurance, psychotherapy, on-site well-being consultants, 24/7 gym access, and a wellness app.
Celebration & Community: Team events, an overseas workation, quarterly team-building budgets, and plenty of ways to mark milestones together.
Plus bonus vacation days, paid life-moment days off, barista coffee, and all the tools you need. See the full list of benefits here: https://career.oxylabs.io/blog/our-work-benefits/.

Required Skills

restapicephcode_reviewdistributed_systemsdjangokafkapythonsaassoftware_testingsystem_architecture

Required Languages

🇬🇧 English

Key competency: General