# DevOps Engineer

[Colonist](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Colonist) · Any Location · Posted 5 weeks ago

Remote

[DevOps](https://gurify.com/jobs/devops)

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## Job description

### Wanted: Colonist DevOps Engineer

Working Hours: We work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours

### Location: Fully Remote

Compensation: Paid in USD. Negotiable based on experience and location

### About Colonist

We're building the biggest digital board game platform on the internet. Players start 250k games every day. Last year: 60M games, 3,037 years of play. We're a fully remote, asynchronous team spread across multiple continents, focused on crafting extremely polished digital board games that people truly love.

### About The Role

Most apps scale by splitting users apart. We can't. Players share one live game state. Every lag spike is felt mid-game. One viral video can 10x our traffic overnight. Your job: absorb 50k CCU without dropping a single game.

You will own the infrastructure behind every game session: clusters, deploys, databases, the edge, and the path from merge to production. You will make our infra knowledge shared, so no system depends on one person.

### What You'll Do

- 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. Pay for players, not idle machines

- 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. Consolidate monitoring and close the gaps

- Document everything: systems, decisions, runbooks, so infrastructure knowledge lives in the team

- Build self-service paths so other engineers use infrastructure confidently.

- When something breaks, thousands notice in seconds. Find the root cause. Make it never recur

### Requirements

- You love hard technical problems. Scale, latency and cost excite you

- You have senior-level experience in DevOps

- You have run Kubernetes in production: rollouts, autoscaling, networking, load balancers, and debugging a bad deploy

- You run infra lean. You optimize before adding hardware

- You document as you go. Runbooks and decisions are natural outputs of your work.

- You are comfortable with Linux, Docker, and a CI system you did not build

- You have operated PostgreSQL and Redis under real traffic: slow queries, connection limits, and schema migrations without downtime

- You have run a message broker in production; we use NATS, but equivalent experience transfers

- You have put Cloudflare, or a similar edge, in front of a public service

- You can debug a live incident across app logs, metrics, the database, and the edge

- AI-forward mindset. We see AI fluency as a real multiplier

- Deeply independent. You learn a system from its code, configs and monitoring.

- Strong written communication. You explain complex systems clearly in async settings, to technical and non-technical audiences alike

- Collaborative by default. You share context proactively, help other engineers understand infrastructure, and never operate as a silo

### Nice to Have

- Experience structuring documentation for AI consumption: machine-readable runbooks, structured architecture notes, agent-readable formats

- Experience building self-service infrastructure paths for other engineers: golden paths, templates, or internal tooling

- Security depth beyond the basics: threat modelling, access control, audit practices, governance guardrails

- You've run real-time or multiplayer systems where shared state matters.

- Previous experience as a solo or near-solo infrastructure engineer at a small company

### Our Values at Colonist

We strongly adhere to these values in our team - if these resonate, then you'll love working here!

### Dependability

We're self-driven players who deliver without needing supervision. When we commit to something, we make it happen.

### Ownership

We take full responsibility and go beyond our roles to improve Colonist.

### Clear Communication

In our remote environment, written communication is key. We're direct, structured, and always keep our team in the loop.

### Efficient Execution

We move fast and focus on impact. Instead of getting stuck on perfect solutions, we find practical ways forward and get things done.

### Continuous Learning

We're curious problem solvers who love a challenge. We constantly seek new ideas, embrace feedback, and aren't afraid to change our minds when we're wrong.

### Why Colonist

- Your work ships to 3,6M+ yearly active players

- We have hard problems, most engineers only read about: live shared state, viral spikes, lean scale

- Async culture; deep work, no performative meetings

- Unlimited vacation, yearly team offsite, full work equipment

- Budget to experiment with any AI tool you want

- Access to all company metrics and internal discussions

**Live in Colonist’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role.

We remove it as soon as it disappears at source.

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