Senior DevOps Engineer

At FetLife we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us better serve the community.The JobAs a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for:Upgrading and improving our infrastructureReducing noise through smarter alerting and root-cause fixesHandling daily infra tasks (K8s issues, deployment health, etc.)Joining the on-call rotation and making it smoother through automationStrengthening security and disaster recoveryTuning and maintaining our databasesAssisting with iteratively rolling out our new bare-metal setupCurrently, our platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end, and enhanced by Rust for select services and gems.More details about our tech stack:Testing is done with RSpec & CapybaraContinuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI & GitHub ActionsMySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databasesScyllaDB for our activity feedsRedis for session storage, queue management, and cachingElasticSearch for full-text searchDevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and HelmMonitoring and alerting is done with DataDog, New Relic, and SentryInfrastructure managed with TerraformHosting on Google Cloud (planning to move towards bare metal)CDN and endpoint protection using Cloudflare and FastlyAbout YouWe're looking for someone who has proven experience maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications.Ideally, you have experience:Running infrastructure on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google CloudManaging databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and RedisSupporting high-traffic, consumer-facing applicationsBonus points if you have experience with:ScyllaDB and ElasticsearchRuby on Rails and/or RustManaging CDN and WAF setupsMigrating from cloud to bare-metalAdditionally, since we're 100% remote, we:Highly value strong written communicatorsRequire three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CETAbout UsFetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:Have over 10 million members and growingGrew 100% by word-of-mouthServe over 3 billion requests a dayYou can find our team and core values here.Pay & BenefitsWe use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k - $180k USD / year.Additionally, we offer:Paid time off:2 weeks vacation5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)2 weeks during Christmas4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursementFully paid maternity and paternity leavePlease mention the word **VERITABLE** and tag RMTguMjM3Ljg5LjE5Nw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjM3Ljg5LjE5Nw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.

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