Skip to main content

Senior DevOps Engineer

RemoteFull-Time

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 working with the engineering team to monitor and improve our security, infrastructure, and performance.

You'll be responsible for:

  • Planning and performing infrastructure improvements and upgrades
  • Triaging, replicating, and fixing potential security issues
  • Performing and automating account support chores
  • Maintaining high CI build success rates and low CI build run times
  • Participating in the on-call rotation

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
  • Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and Sentry
  • Infrastructure managed with Terraform

About You

We're looking for someone who has proven experience maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications.

Ideally, you have experience:

  • Working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis
  • Rails application development
  • Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud

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 - $170k 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

How to Apply

Send an email to [email protected]. In the email, please include:

  • Brief introduction of yourself
  • Tell us about 2-3 of your favourite projects you worked on
  • Link to your GitHub or GitLab account
  • Link to your LinkedIn profile -and/or- a copy of your resume in PDF format

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected]!

If this position is not a fit for you or not what you are looking for, have a look at our career page to see what other positions we currently have open. Also, make sure to to be notified when new positions open up.