DevOps Engineer

Fluence is the first decentralized “Cloudless” computing platform, providing an open alternative to the giant internet cloud monopolies. Fluence is up to 80% cheaper than cloud providers and is both resilient and verifiable. Fluence assembles excess compute capacity from top tier data centers around the world into a global, always-on DePIN network that is suitable for running a wide range of applications. The platform is open, allowing users to change providers easily, ensuring that prices stay low and service levels are high.

Who We’re Looking For:

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to serve as an expert on databases and data pipelines, providing support for our expanding cloud offering with managed services like relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and event streaming (Kafka).

As a DevOps you believe in Infrastructure as Code and automation, follow GitOps principles, love operators, and enjoy building clean, reproducible systems.

You have domain expertise in supporting PostgreSQL and Kafka for internal development teams. You understand how to keep these systems healthy, scalable, and observable.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Be an expert in managed services - ensure the reliability of PostgreSQL and Kafka workloads, assist with customer-related technical questions, and contribute to feature planning and service improvements
  • Handle DevOps duties - add observability, maintain CI/CD, improve infrastructure and tooling
  • Participate in cloud R&D - work on storage, networking, GPU integration, container runtimes
  • Join the on-call rotation

What You Bring:

  • 5+ years of production experience
  • Strong experience operating and tuning PostgreSQL and Kafka
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes from the user perspective
  • Terraform skills and an IaC mindset
  • Familiarity with GitOps principles and tools
  • Experience with the Prometheus ecosystem
  • Good grasp of hardware and networking fundamentals
  • Ability to work independently, and deliver results quickly
  • Professional proficiency in English

Nice to Have:

  • Kubernetes expertise - experience designing, deploying, and managing production clusters
  • Strong Linux internals knowledge with the ability to debug low-level performance issues, such as bottlenecks in the kernel or networking stack
  • Familiarity with CloudnativePG and Redpanda operators
  • Experience with Redis, ClickHouse, MinIO, OIDC providers, and other self-hosted services
  • Experience with self-hosted distributed storage solutions
  • Advanced networking
  • Proficiency in Russian

What You'll Tackle First:

  • Become owner of internal PostgreSQL setup (CloudnativePG):
    • fine tune and optimize settings
    • review and improve alerting
    • create and test disaster recovery plans
  • Participate in planning for managed PostgreSQL service

Future Challenges:

You'll be part of building our own cloud - working closely with hardware, advanced networking, and systems-level R&D.

You'll help expand our core platform by adding:

  • New managed services like S3
  • R&D of managed MySQL
  • Advanced networking (NAT gateways, load-balancers)
  • GPU support
  • Secure container runtime
  • Distributed storage

Tech Stack Highlights:

Terraform, Talos, FluxCD and ArgoCD, KubeVirt, Kube-OVN, HashiCorp Vault, VictoriaMetrics & VictoriaLogs, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Redpanda

Why Join Us:

  • Impact: Your work will directly impact how our clients access and utilize compute resources, driving the next generation of cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Innovation: Work with the latest in container orchestration, virtualization, and multi-cloud technologies.
  • Growth: Be part of a rapidly growing company with plenty of opportunities to advance your career.
  • Culture: Join a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive work environment that values innovation and professional development.

Location: Remote

Commitment: Full-time

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and equity options
  • Remote-first, work from home or use a co-working space of your choice
  • Friendly startup environment: no bureaucracy or time tracking
  • We will provide you with anything you need to learn, grow, and be more productive