Job Summary

Responsibilities

We are actively working to grow our userbase, which means there are many attractive scale, performance, and architectural projects to tackle. DevOps engineers work as part of our overall engineering team, following the same development workflow we use for all product parts.

You will collaborate with Engineering teams to plan, deploy, and maintain business solutions in a cloud environment
You will monitor and maintain production systems and databases to optimize for performance and stability
You will manage a high-availability infrastructure and related incident management policies and procedures
You will be responsible for identifying, troubleshooting, and reporting platform problems to product engineers (or fixing the code yourself) to ensure site performance and reliability
You will collaborate with technical leads to integrate an end-to-end design well documented
You will create and maintain deployment pipelines for multiple environments

Requirements
We do all our hosting with Amazon Web Services, so AWS proficiency is a must: You are experienced in multiple AWS services: EC2, VPC, CloudFront, IAM, RDS, Route53, S3, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, WAF
You bring strong experience with SQL and Postgres (NoSQL experience is a plus, too, since we also use Redis and Cassandra)
You have a strong background in scripting to help automatize repeatable tasks and in Linux/Unix Administration
You have experience in building high availability distributed systems with horizontal scalability
You have experience in building infrastructure from code and config for high-volume services
You know best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
You feel comfortable working in a remote team and work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate our systems
You like taking responsibility for your work, and you are able to deliver production-ready quality independently
Ideally, you have previously worked as a DevOps engineer at a senior level within a software engineering team
Ideally, you bring Ruby on Rails experience as most of our infrastructure is built on it