DevOps engineer for fundraising platforms

We’re Fundraise Up - a global fundraising platform built to make donating to nonprofits fast, seamless, and accessible to all. On a busy giving day, ten minutes of downtime can cost around $500k — we need the engineer who makes sure it doesn't happen. You'll join the DevOps team that owns the platforms every engineering team relies on daily: CI/CD, observability, logging and developer tooling.

• Own one of our core platform areas end-to-end: observability (VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Graylog / VictoriaLogs, fluent bit, exporters, alerting) or CI/CD (Jenkins scripted pipelines, Harbor, Nexus, build agents) — you drive its architecture, reliability, and roadmap.
• Drive technical initiatives end-to-end: gather requirements, write the design doc, decompose into tasks, implement, deliver to production, and own the operational health afterwards.
• Drive clarity in ambiguous situations by defining requirements, assumptions, and next steps.
• Design for reliability and scale: evolve the architecture of our platforms — topology, integration points, scaling approach, and reliability model.
• Support developers: deploy and monitor applications on both on-premise servers and Kubernetes (Helm), troubleshoot builds and deploys, help teams with metrics, alerts, and logs; participate in chat duty in developer support channels.
• Automate away toil: repetitive operations, provisioning, and maintenance should be codified, not performed by hand.
• Investigate production incidents as the senior escalation point for your area: drive resolution, lead post-mortems, implement systemic fixes.
• Participate in on-call rotations and raise the bar for how on-call works.
• Mentor less experienced engineers through design discussions, reviews, and pairing; catch debt-inducing shortcuts at the review stage.
• Use AI in all aspects of day-to-day work: researching, troubleshooting, developing.

• 6+ years as a DevOps Engineer / SRE (or very close responsibilities).
• Track record of owning technical initiatives end-to-end — from requirements and technical design through production delivery. You can showcase initiatives that were yours, not just tasks you completed.
• Confident Linux skills (we use Ubuntu).
• Working knowledge of the Prometheus stack: metric types, exporters, and how alerting works — enough to navigate and extend an existing setup.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD: pipeline design, build orchestration, artifact delivery.
• Containers: Docker, image building, registries.
• Ansible.
• Git.
• Experience with Bash or Python scripting for automation and observability (writing exporters, eliminating routine work).
• Production/on-call experience: diagnosing incidents, restoring service, leading post-mortems.
• Experience mentoring less experienced engineers.
• Ownership and attention to detail. Downtime is expensive: during busy events 10 minutes of downtime can cost us around $500k.
• Languages: Fluent Russian (required, as you’ll be working in a Russian-speaking team)
• We understand it’s impossible to be an expert in everything, but it’s important to have solid hands-on experience in two or more of the areas below:
• VictoriaMetrics / Prometheus stack at scale: architecture, cardinality control, exporters, alerting infrastructure.
• Log pipelines at scale: Graylog / VictoriaLogs / ELK — collection (fluent bit or similar), retention, sharding, performance.
• Jenkins scripted pipelines: shared libraries, pipeline infrastructure, build agent fleets.
• Container registries and artifact management: Harbor, Nexus, base images, image policies.
• Operating applications on Kubernetes: Helm, workload monitoring and log delivery, deploy troubleshooting.
• Grafana: dashboards as code, alerting, performance at scale.
• Будет плюсом: Analytics & DS platforms: JupyterHub, Airflow, Tableau, MLflow, Airbyte — deployment, maintenance, resource limits. Building platform around these tools to improve Quality of Life for Analytics; Remote development environments and AI agent execution environments. E.g. Coder/Telepresence; Bare-metal Kubernetes: provisioning, networking, scaling; Flux and GitOps; Terraform; Sentry on-premise: operating self-hosted error tracking; ClickHouse, MongoDB

• Gross Total Compensation
• €6.200—€6.600 EUR
• 31 paid days off per year to use as you choose.
• Fully remote work.
• Generous home office stipend to set up a comfortable, productive workspace.
• Coworking reimbursement for days when you'd rather work alongside other people.
• Annual professional development stipend to support your growth.
• English learning programs to help you communicate with confidence across our global team.
• Telemedicine for you and your family.
• Mental health support with therapy sessions for you and your partner.
• Sports reimbursement to help you stay active and feel your best.
• Charitable giving program with company matching for your donations to registered non-profits.