DevOps Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the stack behind every game: game, matchmaking and lobby servers on Kubernetes
• ▹Manage cluster and cloud resources as code in Terraform
• ▹Scale servers up and down with live traffic
• ▹Ship updates often without kicking players out of live games
• ▹Keep terabytes of game data and replays fast and cheap: PostgreSQL, Redis, NATS under real load
• ▹Defend the edge from bots and attacks: Cloudflare, rate limiting, Turnstile, R2
• ▹Own observability across Sentry and New Relic and consolidate monitoring
• ▹Document systems, decisions and runbooks
• ▹Build self-service paths so other engineers use infrastructure confidently
• ▹Find root causes and make failures never recur

Requirements

• ▹Senior-level experience in DevOps
• ▹Run Kubernetes in production: rollouts, autoscaling, networking, load balancers, debugging a bad deploy
• ▹Run infra lean: optimize before adding hardware
• ▹Comfortable with Linux, Docker and a CI system you did not build
• ▹Operated PostgreSQL and Redis under real traffic: slow queries, connection limits, zero-downtime schema migrations
• ▹Run a message broker in production; NATS is used but equivalent experience transfers
• ▹Put Cloudflare or a similar edge in front of a public service
• ▹Debug a live incident across app logs, metrics, the database and the edge
• ▹AI-forward mindset
• ▹Learn a system from its code, configs and monitoring

Nice to have

• ▹Experience structuring documentation for AI consumption: machine-readable runbooks, structured architecture notes
• ▹Experience building self-service infrastructure paths: golden paths, templates, internal tooling
• ▹Security depth beyond the basics: threat modelling, access control, audit practices
• ▹Experience running real-time or multiplayer systems where shared state matters

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Fully remote
• ▹Asynchronous work, outcomes over hours
• ▹Paid in USD, negotiable based on experience and location

About the company

Colonist is the biggest digital board game platform on the internet, with players starting 250k games every day. It is a fully remote, asynchronous team across multiple continents.