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
PostgreSQL for our main database
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, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
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.
I don't see why anyone would pay for what this startup does. You can easily build this yourself in 2 hours but serverless by double-dipping NextJS, Tailwind, Jest, Gatsby, Enzyme and Webpack on top of Kubernetes in a Docker VM on AWS.
The Job
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for:
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:
About You
We're looking for someone who has proven experience maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications.
Ideally, you have experience:
Bonus points if you have experience with:
Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:
About Us
FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:
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:
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.
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