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 working with the engineering team to monitor and improve our security, infrastructure, and performance.
You'll be responsible for:
- Elevating our DevOps standards through improved monitoring, tooling, and processes
- Planning and performing infrastructure improvements and maintenance
- Monitoring and improving website stability and response times
- Monitoring and improving email deliverability
- Participating in the on-call rotation
- Triaging, replicating, and fixing potential security issues
- Maintaining high CI build success rates and low CI build run times
Currently, our entire platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end.
More details about our tech stack:
- Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
- Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI
- 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 NewRelic
About You
We're looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications.
Ideally, you have experience:
- Working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Redis
- Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
- Setting up and maintaining application and infrastructure monitoring
- Managing database performance
Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:
- Highly value strong written communicators
- Require at least a few hours of overlap from 8-12 AM EST (2-6 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 1.5 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 - $155k USD / year. Rate is dependent on the level you are currently at.
Additionally, we offer:
- Paid time off:
- 2 weeks vacation
- 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
- 2 weeks during Christmas*
- 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)*
- 1 retreat a year (e.g. the last one's were in Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, Tennessee, and Montreal)
- A yearly anniversary gift of your choosing (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
- Reimbursed music subscription
- Fully paid maternal or parental leave
* Not guaranteed, but have happened every year
Note: We believe the traditional hiring process is broken, so we do things a bit differently. We first bring people as a part-time or full-time contractor so that we can get to know each other. If both sides enjoy working with each other, we make you an official offer.
How to Apply
Send us an email. In the email, please include:
- Quick introduction about yourself and why you believe you are the right person for this role
- Tell us about 2-3 of your favourite projects you worked on
- Link to your GitHub or GitLab account (if you have one)
- 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 jointheteam+do@fetlife.com
Salary and compensation
From $110.000 to $150.000/year