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 GitHub Actions
• 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
• 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/AWS/Azure
• Managing databases like 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

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

You can find our team and core values here.