Fliff Inc · 1 month ago
Staff DevOps Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $220K/yr
7+ years expFliff is pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming, providing engaging and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming. They are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to build scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that support high-traffic user experiences, while collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Security teams.
GamingMobile Apps
Responsibilities
Architect, 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
Qualification
Required
7+ 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
Preferred
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
Unlimited/ Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy
Health 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.
$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.
Company
Fliff Inc
Fliff is the home of social sports gaming.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$1.5M2022-08-15Series Unknown
2021-04-15Seed· $1.5M
Leadership Team
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Matt Ricci
Co-Founder
Mario Dodev
PM
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