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At FetLife we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us better serve the community. The Job Upgrading and improving our infrastructure Reducing noise through smarter alerting and rootcause fixes Handling daily infra tasks (K8s issues, deployment health, etc.) Joining the oncall rotation and making it smoother through automation Strengthening security and disaster recovery Tuning and maintaining our databases Our platform is a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with TypeScript on the frontend, 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 fulltext 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 Were looking for someone who has proven experience maintaining large productionlevel Ruby on Rails applications. Core Experience Running infrastructure on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud Managing databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis Supporting hightraffic, consumerfacing applications Bonus Points ScyllaDB and Elasticsearch Ruby on Rails and/or Rust Managing CDN and WAF setups Remote Work Expectations 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. Have over 10 million members and growing Grew 100% by wordofmouth Serve over 3 billion requests a day 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. Paid time off: 2 weeks vacation 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving) 2 weeks during Christmas 4day 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 you might be a good fit for this role, well get back to you within 12 weeks of you applying. The interview process includes an initial screening interview, technical interview, takehome paid project, and a project presentation call. Please mention the word OPULENT and tag RMjYwMzo3MDAwOjRjM2I6M2Y3Mjo5MTE4OmE5ZTk6ZTE3NjphOWQ4 when applying to show you read the job post completely. Job Type Remote job #J-18808-Ljbffr