Senior DevOps Engineer / Ruby

This is a remote position. Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer / Ruby Reporting into: VP of Engineering Location: Remote (North America, South America, and Europe) As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help run the cloud infrastructure that powers our Ruby API for our family of LGBTQ+ mobile dating apps.

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about architecture and monads! Ok just kidding about the last part -- but you can see more about our approach to API development in our Medium blog series here. The position is 40 hours per week and ongoing/full-time.

What you'll do: Maintain a complex backend which processes more than 350 million web server requests per day Manage, modernize and innovate across our fleet of API, process and database servers running in the AWS cloud Terraform our architecture to ensure cloud architectural consistency Build a modern API application atop a functional architecture in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and/or Sinatra Build well factored, maintainable, and tested code using RSpec with Test & Behavior Driven Development (TDD & BDD) Understand and build using strong architectural patterns beyond the standard MVC of Rails Have a strong sense of OO programming and Architectural patterns Be able to work with, mentor, and guide a distributed team of developers Team members will be expected to align to the working and pairing hours of their team in their respective regions.

Our team writes code in pairs, and engineering teams screen-share with each other a minimum of 4 hours per day. We are pioneers of architectural linters, and are working on a new open-source architectural linter for Ruby inspired by our experience in Kotlin.

This enables us to apply architectural principles across a global, distributed team You can see more about our architectural approach on our Engineering blog here. As a DevOps engineer you should definitely read our guest post in the AWS Engineering blog here.

Requirements

Timezone requirements: Because we are a global, re