Senior DevOps Engineer at FetLife

The Job

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
• Redis and KeyDB for our activity feeds, session storage, queue management, and caching (currently migrating to ScyllaDB)
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelic

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, or Redis
• Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
• Setting up and maintaining application and infrastructure monitoring
• Managing database performance

Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require at least a few hours of overlap from 8-12 AM EST (2-6 PM CET)

Unique to Us

Every organization is a bit different, here are some unique things about us:

• We believe the traditional hiring process is broken, so we do things a bit differently. We first bring people on 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.
• We have little to no meetings, we focus on written async communication instead
• The tenure of a DevOps Engineer at FetLife is 2-3x longer than average
• You will work on high-impact projects that will make a difference in many people's lives
• You can always ask questions to your team when you get stuck, but we do appreciate people who are self-sufficient
• Get to learn a lot because we are a small team and everyone gets to work on different parts of the system. Nobody specializes.
• We value focused productive work over long hours. We don't want people to burn out. We want people to work at a consistent pace they can maintain year after year

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 - $155k 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 work weeks during the summer months (July & August)*
• 1 retreat a year (ex. the last one's were in Miami, Vancouver, Tennessee & Montreal)
• A yearly anniversary gift of your choosing (200$ USD for every year with us, ex. 4th anniversary is $800)
• Reimbursed music subscription
• Fully paid maternal or parental leave

* Not guaranteed, but have happened every year