Senior DevOps Engineer
At FetLife we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us better serve the community. The Job As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for: Upgrading and improving our infrastructure Reducing noise through smarter alerting and root-cause fixes Handling daily infra tasks (K8s issues, deployment health, etc.) Joining the on-call rotation and making it smoother through automation Strengthening security and disaster recovery Tuning and maintaining our databases Currently, 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 & Capybara Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI & GitHub Actions MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases ScyllaDB for our activity feeds Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching ElasticSearch for full-text search DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm Monitoring and alerting is done with DataDog, New Relic, and Sentry Infrastructure managed with Terraform Hosting on Google Cloud (planning to move towards bare metal) CDN and endpoint protection using Cloudflare and Fastly About You We'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 Cloud Managing databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis Supporting high-traffic, consumer-facing applications Bonus points if you have experience with: ScyllaDB and Elasticsearch Ruby on Rails and/or Rust Managing CDN and WAF setups Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we: Highly value strong written communicators Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET About Us FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We: Have over 10 million members and growing Grew 100% by word-of-mouth Serve over 3 billion requests a day You can find our team and core values here . Pay & Benefits We 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 - $180k USD / year. Additionally, we offer: Paid time off: 2 weeks vacation 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving) 2 weeks during Christmas 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August) Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal) Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800) Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursement Fully paid maternity and paternity leave Hiring Process We review every application carefully and if we believe that you might be a good fit for this role, we'll get back to you within 1-2 weeks of you applying. The interview process includes an initial screening interview, technical interview, take home paid project, and a project presentation call. Please mention the word **OPULENT** and tag RMjYwNzo1MzAwOjIwZDo3ZDAwOjo= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjYwNzo1MzAwOjIwZDo3ZDAwOjo=). 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.