Senior DevOps Engineer

At Fet Life we're looking for a Senior Dev Ops Engineer to help us better serve the community.

• 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

Our platform is a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Type Script on the front‑end, and enhanced by Rust for select services and gems.

• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment are done with Circle
  
  CI & Git Hub Actions
• MySQL and Postgre
  
  SQL for our main databases
• Scylla
  
  DB for our activity feeds
• Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
• Elastic Search for full‑text search
• Dev Ops using containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Monitoring and alerting is done with Data Dog, 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

We’re looking for someone who has proven experience maintaining large production‑level Ruby on Rails applications.

• Running infrastructure on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
• Managing databases like MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, and Redis
• Supporting high‑traffic, consumer‑facing applications

• Scylla
  
  DB and Elasticsearch
• Ruby on Rails and/or Rust
• Managing CDN and WAF setups

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

Fet Life is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way.

• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word‑of‑mouth
• Serve over 3 billion requests a day

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
  • 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

We review every application carefully and, if we believe 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.

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