DevOps engineer in proxy infrastructure

SOAX is a proxy infrastructure company with a product customers genuinely love and depend on. Our system is a geo-distributed, high-load platform written in Go, handling HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5/TCP/UDP traffic across millions of nodes worldwide.

• Troubleshoot and fix things. Incidents happen. You dig in, find root causes, and resolve them — not "coordinate the response," but actually do the work.
• Rebuild infrastructure properly. Take what we have and make it production-grade: monitoring, alerting, deployment pipelines, disaster recovery.
• Work at the network level. Debug packet flows, optimize routing, understand why latency spikes between nodes in different regions. This is not a "deploy containers and forget" role.
• Automate everything that should be automated. If you're doing something manually twice, build a system for it.
• Drive your own strategic projects. Beyond firefighting, you'll identify what needs fixing at a structural level, propose it, get alignment, and own it end-to-end. This isn't a role where someone else does all the thinking and hands you a backlog.

• Networking fundamentals you can defend live — subnetting, NAT, routing, DNS, TLS. Not textbook definitions, but the ability to reason through a scenario out loud.
• Real bare-metal experience — actual hands-on with physical infrastructure at some point in your career.
• DevOps as genuine curiosity, not just a job — something you built or broke on your own time, not because a ticket told you to.
• A proven root-cause habit — a specific story where you found the actual cause of an issue, not just where you patched the symptom.
• 5+ years hands-on in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles. (3–5 years are welcome to apply, but should be ready to demonstrate senior-level systems thinking live.)
• Comfort with on-call and incident response.
• Будет плюсом: Proxy protocols, traffic routing at scale, or CDN/edge experience; Self-hosted ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB; English good enough for a live technical conversation; Russian a plus but not required

• Fully remote, four-day work week.
• Compensation paid in GBP.
• Reporting directly to the CTO.
• Paid time off and sick leave.