DevOps Engineer, Fizz

• We are open to candidates of all experience levels who are passionate about being an early employee and want to help drive our company forward
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and scalable services, with experience in deploying and maintaining high-availability distributed systems
• Proficiency in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog, with a strong focus on performance tuning and incident management
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure deployments, and managing version control and configuration management tools
• Familiarity with database management and migration strategies for systems such as Firebase, MongoDB, and Redis
• Proven ability to implement best practices for security and compliance in a cloud-based environment
• Strong collaboration skills, with experience working closely with engineering teams to ensure platform reliability and scalability during periods of rapid growth

Desirable

• We are currently in the process of rapidly expanding to all US universities and high schools, with the goal of getting there by the end of the 2024-2025 academic school year
• Our team is engineering driven and product first
• In order to maximize our product iteration, we give engineers at Fizz a lot of autonomy and full ownership
• Ideating, designing, and implementing new features from the ground up enhance and transform the way students use and view Fizz
• Designing the systems and processes to facilitate rapid user base expansion
• Building scalable community moderation systems powered by generative AI
• Experimenting with novel products to disrupt the way Gen-Z connects with their community in high school, college, and beyond
• Architect, design, and develop scalable services that can support high traffic consumer facing applications involving user interactions typical of a social network
• Increase overall platform observability by Instrumenting Grafana metrics, configuring alert policies and setup incident reporting dashboard
• Devise and execute migration and consolidation strategy on Fizz’s database and persistent tier, currently on Firebase, MongoDB, and Redis clusters
• Take ownership of infrastructure hosting Fizz’s ML data pipelines and embedding databases
• Work closely with development teams to architect, implement, and manage scalable and dependable systems, including CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment
• Manage and take charge of the on-call process, including scheduling, supporting critical incidents and outages, and creating robust disaster recovery plans