[Hiring] DevOps Engineer / SRE @Fundraise Up

Role Description

You will join a small team responsible for the stability, performance, and security of our server infrastructure: bare metal, VMs, databases, queues, networking, and infrastructure security. Our philosophy is simple: the team owns its systems end-to-end, and every engineer should be able to diagnose and fix issues in their area of responsibility. This role is for someone who enjoys working with real infrastructure (OS, hardware/virtualization, networks), not just cloud abstractions.

What You'll Do

• Work primarily with on-premise infrastructure (bare metal and VMs): setup, maintenance, troubleshooting
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations by defining requirements, assumptions, and next steps
• Own automation projects end-to-end (design → rollout → maintenance)
• Improve how we operate: harden and tune systems and also improve the way the team works in terms of operational hygiene
• Keep the platform stable, fast, and secure: servers, web servers, databases, queues
• Investigate production incidents across OS / networking / infrastructure layers, apply temporary mitigations, coordinate with developers and participate in post-mortems
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Use AI in all aspects of day-to-day work: researching, troubleshooting, developing

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a DevOps Engineer / SRE (or very close responsibilities)
• Real, hands-on experience with servers (VMs, bare metal) at the OS level and below: configuring, troubleshooting, digging into “why it’s broken”
• Confident Linux skills (we use Ubuntu). We expect you to be comfortable with the core tools from Linux Crisis Tools
• Solid understanding of networking basics; ability to configure and troubleshoot iptables
• Ansible + Git
• Experience with Bash or Python scripting for automation/observability
• Production/on-call experience: diagnosing incidents, restoring service, participating in post-mortems
• Ownership and attention to detail. Downtime is expensive: five years ago, 10 minutes of downtime cost us $100k — today it’s even more

Nice to Have

• ClickHouse, MongoDB: what each database is used for, monitoring, troubleshooting performance and slow queries, sharding
• Kafka: operating clusters at scale (topic moves, broker replacements, tuning)
• Redis: high-load tuning, replication, sharding, performance monitoring
• Elasticsearch: configuration, scaling, sharding/cluster management
• HAProxy / Nginx: load balancing, SSL/TLS, caching, reverse proxying, performance monitoring
• OS tuning: kernel/network stack/filesystem parameters for high-load systems
• Full Disk Encryption on LVM: We use Clevis + Tang in production
• Infrastructure Security: Teleport, HashiCorp Vault

Bonus points

• Great if you’ve worked with any of the following: VictoriaMetrics and how it differs from the Prometheus stack
• Complex CI/CD pipelines. We use scripted Jenkins pipelines
• Bare-metal Kubernetes: provisioning, networking (MetalLB or alternatives), isolation from the internet, scaling across providers (like OVH, Hetzner) and integration with existing infrastructure
• Flux and GitOps
• Terraform

Benefits

• 31 days off
• 100% paid telemedicine plan
• Home Office Setup Assistance: the company offers assistance with purchasing furniture (office chair, office desk, monitor) and other items to create a comfortable workspace.
• English learning courses
• Relevant professional education
• Gym or swimming pool
• Co-working
• Remote working