Full-Time Senior DevOps Engineer
FetLife is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior DevOps Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Worldwide based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Job Title
Senior DevOps Engineer
Posted
Career Level
Full-Time
Career Level
Experienced
Locations Accepted
Worldwide
Salary
YEAR $115000 - $180000
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Job Details
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
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
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, 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
Since we're 100% remote, we highly value strong written communicators and require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET
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FAQs
What is the last date for applying to the job?
The deadline to apply for Full-Time Senior DevOps Engineer at FetLife is
13th of November 2025
. We consider jobs older than one month to have expired.
Which countries are accepted for this remote job?
This job accepts [
Worldwide
] applicants. .
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