[Hiring] Senior DevOps Engineer

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
Migrating from cloud to bare-metal
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

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

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
Assisting with iteratively rolling out our new bare-metal setup
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