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
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 at: https://fetlife.com/team.
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
How to Apply
Send an email to [email protected]. In the email, please include:
- Brief introduction of yourself
- 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 [email protected]!
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.
