Senior DevOps Engineer

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
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Cloudflare and Fastly as CDN

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, and Redis
• Rails application development
• Optimizing DB and Rails application performance
• 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 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 - $170k 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 an email to jointheteam+do@fetlife.com. 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
• 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!