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Infrastructure Ops Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
3 years
Job description
Infrastructure Ops engineer at Fly.io who manages the bare metal server fleet and builds tooling to support the Platform team and end customers. The role is fully remote and open to early-career through senior engineers.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Manage the foundation that everything else is built on and provide tools to support the Platform team and Fly.io end customers
- Build tools and systems to safely operate a fleet of bare metal servers
- Develop green-field automation, infrastructure-as-code, observability and alerting work
- Write guides, docs, and frameworks so the team can use the code you build
- Communicate with users clearly and transparently during incidents
- Treat each failure as a chance to learn and improve so it doesn't happen again
- Prioritize when everything is vying for attention
- Bring best practices used to run internal infrastructure to ways users can benefit
What we're looking for
- Care about users and can empathize with the problems they encounter using our products
- Excited about building tools and systems to safely operate a fleet of bare metal servers
- Like working with Linux things such as eBPF, LVM2, WireGuard and policy routing
- Comfortable building things that are imperfect and solve current problems
- Clear writing in English is essential
- Enthusiasm for learning is critical
Your team
Infrastructure Ops
Human to metal interface; manages the foundation everything else is built on and provides tools to support the Platform team and Fly.io end customers
How to get hired
- 1Series of challenges that each simulate the kind of work you'll actually be doing
- 2Challenges are the backbone of the whole process, not pre-screeners for an interview gauntlet
- 3Send a message with your GitHub username, your location, and a sentence about your favorite food
Apply
About the company
A small, deeply technical team building a platform on bare metal servers, active in developer communities including community.fly.io.
Key facts
- Small team that is deeply technical
- Engineers have an unusual amount of autonomy and decision-making power
- Active in developer communities, including community.fly.io
- Virtually all customer communication, documentation and blog posts are in writing
- Global company, but most communication is in English
- Offers competitive equity grants with a long exercise window