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
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
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
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 $115kย -ย $180k USD / year.
Additionally, we offer:
Paid time off:
2 weeks vacation
5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
2 weeks during Christmas
4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursement
Fully paid maternity and paternity leave
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#About Us\nAt [Close](https://close.com), we're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we're leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals(faster). Since our founding in 2013, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of 60+ high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.\n\nOur backend [tech stack](https://stackshare.io/close-crm/close) currently consists of Python Flask web apps with our [TaskTiger](https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger) scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS, MSK, RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our compute runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters. Our backend primarily serves a well-documented [public API](https://developer.close.com/) that our front-end JavaScript app consumes. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using AWS tools, Terraform, and Ansible.\n\nWe open source โ using dozens of open source projects with contributions to many of them, and released some of our own like [ciso8601](https://github.com/closeio/ciso8601),[LimitLion](https://github.com/closeio/limitlion), [SocketShark](https://github.com/closeio/socketshark), [TaskTiger](https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger), and more at https://github.com/closeio\n\n#About You\nWe're looking for a full-time Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for databases(both SQL and NoSQL) to join our core team who has significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale.\n\n#Come help us with projects like- \n* Scale our Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth\n* Automate the maintenance and upgrades of our PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases\n* Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure\n* Tighten security across our infrastructure\n* Improve our [public APIโs](https://developer.close.com/) performance and resiliency\n* Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features\n* Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs\n* Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer\n\n*Bonus: Are you a PostgreSQL or MongoDB expert? Please let us know! ๐*\n\n#You should- \n* Have expert knowledge of database internals either PostgreSQL or MongoDB.\n* Demonstrable expertise in database performance.\n* Experience developing large-scale schema migration solutions.\n* Have significant experience with nix, Python, bash, Terraform, Ansible, or similar backend systems and frameworks\n* Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts\n* Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Terraform, Ansible, or other scripting languages\n* Have experience with Docker containers and containerized service\n* Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing\n* Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure\n* Be self-motivated and comfortable with responsibility\n* Have participated in and be comfortable with being part of an on-call rotation. (1 out of every 10 weeks)\n\n#Why Close?\n* [Culture video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbyGnLhtj0o&feature=youtu.be) :green_heart:\n* 100% remote company (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n* Choose between working 5 days/wk (standard full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay\n* [Annual team retreats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q) :airplane:\n* Quarterly virtual summits\n* 5 weeks PTO + Winter Holiday Break\n* 2 additional PTO days every year with the company\n* 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years\n* Co-working stipend\n* Revenue Share (after 1 year)\n* Paid parental leave\n* Medical, Dental, Vision with HSA option (US residents)\n* 401k matching at 6% (US residents)\n* Dependent care FSA (US residents)\n* Contributor to [Stripe's climate](https://stripe.com/climate) initiative :earth_africa::heart:\n* [Our story and team](https://close.com/about/) :rocket:\n\nAt Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practice a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we donโt have strict policies, we have guidelines. Work/Life harmony is an important part of our business - we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you).\n\nWe come from 16 countries located in 5 of the 7 continents -- looking at you Antarctica and Australia ;-) โฆ.. Weโre a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Every year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another. These gatherings are an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our global community.\n\nOur team is growing in more ways than one - weโve recently launched 17 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is โBuild a house you want to live in.โ We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our people and help our customers become more successful. \n\nPlease mention the word **FLATTER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$100,000 — $200,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
โฐ Async\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAmericas, Europe, Africa
# How do you apply?\n\nThis job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
At Fluxx, our mission is to be the leading collaborative grantmaking platform that amplifies impact in our global communities. Weโre a mission-driven business making an impact in philanthropy, and our cloud platform enables the end-to-end grantmaking process for funders and doers. We volunteer, serve our community, and weโre committed to building a team of outstanding individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are looking for the best talent to continue to drive our mission forward.\n\nIn the role of Senior Software Engineer, youโll play a critical role in building high-quality, innovative, and performant software that aligns with industry standards and best practices.\n\nThis is a full-time exempt and remote position. Candidates must be located in the United States.\n\nWhat you'll be doing:\nProvide technical leadership, bringing best engineering practices to all phases of large-scale engineering initiatives\nWork cross-functionally with engineers, designers, QA, and product managers\nDesign and execute new user-facing features and applications\nBuilding test automation to ensure quality release after release\nLead initiatives to refactor, re-engineer, and reimagine our platform\nProduce high-quality software that is well designed, fully unit tested and passes peer code review\nDeliver projects with high quality and at a rapid cadence\n\n\nWhat you bring to the team:\nExperience as a full-stack engineer (frontend + backend development).\nAt least 4 years of experience building, fixing, and scaling web apps\nDesire to learn and mentor\nStrong communication and collaboration skills\nProficiency with SQL and Unix\nA deep foundation in computer science with a strong understanding of data structures, and algorithms\nDedication to writing maintainable, fast, beautiful code including documentation\nAn ability to learn and adapt quickly\n\n\nYouโll have a better chance of success given experience with:\nLarge refactoring/re-engineering projects\nWorking in at least some of our stack:\nRuby, Rails\nMySQL\nElasticsearch\njQuery, React\nRedis, Resque\nJava\nPlay\nDevops and AWS\nRESTful APIs\n\n\nAbout Fluxx:\nAt Fluxx, we're looking for people with grit and passion about Fluxxโs vision to become THE company that changes Philanthropy forever. We encourage you to apply - even if your experience doesn't exactly match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out especially if your career path is unique. \n\nPlease mention the word **FAST** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
$160,000 — $170,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States
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**ABOUT US**\n\n\n\nAt Close.io weโre building the sales communication platform of the future. Weโve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals. We are hiring engineers to join our DevOps team to help take our platform to the next level by adding new features, providing better performance, and even higher reliability. We are a ~30 person entirely remote team (with ~13 engineers) that is profitable and building a product our customers love.\n\n\n\nOur backend tech stack currently consists of Python Flask/Gunicorn web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous processing tasks. Our data stores include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Our infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElastiCache as well as EC2 instances managed by Puppet. These EC2 instances run everything from our databases to our Kubernetes clusters.\n\n\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\n\n\nWe're looking for a full-time DevOps Engineering Manager / Team Lead to join our core team who has significant experience in building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure and backend services at scale.\n\nIn this Team Lead role, you will be doing *both* hands-on technical work yourself *and* managing/leading a small remote team (2-3 people) of exceptional Senior SRE/DevOps Engineers.\n\n\n\n**Come help us with projects like**\n\n\n\n* Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features\n\n* Scale our Elasticsearch and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth\n\n* Tune our MySQL and PostgreSQL databases\n\n* Improve our public Close.io API performance and resiliency\n\n* Tighten security across our infrastructure\n\n* Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs\n\n* Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer\n\n* Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure\n\n* Enhance our Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) logging stack\n\n\n\n**And leadership responsibilities like**\n\n\n\n* Being responsible for the happiness, well-fare, and productivity of the DevOps team; do regular 1:1s.\n\n* Leading the strategy, roadmap, and goals for the DevOps team\n\n* Coordinating with other engineers on current and upcoming infrastructure needs for Product and overall business goals\n\n* Having the primary responsibility for the stability, performance, and security of our infrastructure\n\n* Hiring/growing the team as needed, while keeping a high quality bar\n\n\n\n**You should**\n\n\n\n* Have 2+ years managing & leading an engineering team, including experience recruiting/hiring great engineers\n\n* Have a servant leadership attitude with the ability to foster a collaborative & positive energy work environment, especially when PagerDuty is calling\n\n* Have real world experience building scalable systems, working with large data sets, and troubleshooting various back-end challenges under pressure\n\n* Have significant experience with *nix, Python, bash, and Puppet or similar backend systems and frameworks\n\n* Experience working with large databases running on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Mongo\n\n* Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts\n\n* Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Puppet, or other scripting languages\n\n* Have experience with Docker containers and microservices\n\n* Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing\n\n* Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure\n\n\n\n**Why work with us?**\n\n\n\n* Our story and [team retreat video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q&feature=youtu.be)\n\n* Stellar team reviews on [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Close-io-Reviews-E1155591.htm)\n\n* Work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n\n* Enjoy face-to-face time with the whole team on all-expense paid retreats 2x year.\n\n* Experience building a truly successful SaaS company with a dedicated, small team where you can have a huge impact\n\n* Above market salary\n\n* Excellent medical & dental coverage, including 99% paid premiums and HSA option (**US residents)\n\n* Matching 401k (**US residents)\n\n\n\nInterested in DevOps but think this Team Lead role isn't the right fit? View our [SRE/DevOps Engineering role](https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/38d0c4ac-c3eb-47e9-a49e-4611f96eef8d) or all our other positions. \n\nPlease mention the words **THUMB PERSON ROUTE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Elasticsearch, Engineer, Redis, Executive, Python, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Medical and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
โฐ Async\n\n
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