Senior DevOps Engineer

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 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
• Monitoring and alerting is done with DataDog, New Relic, and Sentry
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Hosting on Google Cloud (planning to move towards bare metal)
• 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, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
• Managing databases like MySQL, 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

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 - $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

Hiring Process

We review every application carefully and if we believe that you might be a good fit for this role, we'll get back to you within 1-2 weeks of you applying. The interview process includes an initial screening interview, technical interview, take home paid project, and a project presentation call.