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Posted 5 months ago
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Who We’re Looking ForFliff is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that power real-time, high-traffic user experiences. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, excel at solving complex distributed systems problems, and enjoy partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Security teams. You bring a platform mindset, an automation-first philosophy, and the ability to drive architectural decisions that improve engineering velocity and system reliability.What You’ll DoArchitect, build, and operate highly available, high-performance infrastructure that supports large volumes of real-time traffic, especially during peak sports windows.Lead the design and development of internal platforms, tooling, and automated workflows that accelerate engineering productivity.Own and improve observability (metrics, logs, traces), monitoring, and alerting to ensure fast detection and resolution of issues.Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements across the engineering organization.Enhance and maintain our Kubernetes-based platform, including Helm charts, multi-environment pipelines, cluster upgrades, and operational hardening.Implement and evolve security best practices around IAM, network architecture, secrets management, and infrastructure governance.Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support safe, rapid, and stable deployments.Partner with engineering leadership on capacity planning, cost optimization, and infrastructure roadmap planning.Mentor and guide engineers across teams, influencing architectural direction and DevOps best practices.Champion Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, and automation as the default mode of operating.Required Skills & Experience7+ years of SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure experience supporting production systems at scale.Proven experience running distributed systems and microservices in high-traffic or high-availability environments.Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud-native architecture (preferably AWS).Strong proficiency in Go or another backend programming language.Exposure to PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, or Cassandra performance tuning in a production environment.Deep familiarity with event-driven systems, streaming pipelines, or messaging platforms such as Kinesis, Kafka, Pub/Sub, or RabbitMQ.Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform or a comparable IaC solution.Strong practical understanding of observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.).Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability-driven engineering practices.Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.Solid foundation in security fundamentals: IAM, network policies, workload hardening, secrets management.Demonstrated leadership in technical decision-making, cross-functional influence, and on-call/incident management.Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and leadership teams.Ability to influence org-wide DevOps maturity, champion best practices, and drive standards across multiple teams.Nice to Have:Background in infrastructure cost modeling and optimization, particularly in high-scale microservices environments.Experience running workloads requiring low latency or real-time processing (gaming, sports, fintech, ad tech, streaming).Prior involvement in PCI, SOC2, GDPR, or similar compliance initiatives.Experience mentoring or guiding cross-functional engineering groups (backend teams, mobile teams, data teams).Benefits:The annual salary for this role ranges from $180,000 to $220,000, depending on experience and background.Unlimited/ Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policyHealth benefits with 100% paid premiums* for medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents, plus an on-demand healthcare concierge.Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare, with up to a $500 annual employer contribution to the HSA (if enrolled in the HSA medical plan).Employee-sponsored 401(k) to help reach your financial goals.Fully remote work environment.Generous parental leave.Professional development opportunities in a dynamic, global setting.Perks:Work Remotely.$500 work-from-home stipend + Equipment & Accessories.Opportunity for professional development in a dynamic, global setting.A supportive, collaborative, and knowledge-driven workplace.An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.Closing DescriptionWe are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia, and offices in New York, Austin, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world, we pride ourselves on being a close-knit, focused team that is welcoming and friendly, and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding. Wherever we are in the world, we pride ourselves on being a close-knit, focused team that is:Welcoming and FriendlyWe want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, we’ll make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.Lively and CreativeWe respect and value each other’s ideas, experience and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.Stimulating and RewardingWe know bright minds love a challenge, and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. We’ll make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.Equal Employment Opportunity StatementFliff is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.Join Our Team!If you're ready to be part of an exciting, innovative, and dynamic team, apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.IMPORTANT NOTICE:The privacy and security of applicant information is paramount and we take fraud attempts very seriously. Please note that Fliff will never ask for payment or personal financial information during the application process. All of our legitimate job opportunities can be found on our official career site (https://www.getfliff.com/careers). Please be cautious of communications and links that come from non-company email addresses (@getfliff.com), social media messaging platforms or unsolicited phone calls.
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