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.
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