Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is the 3rd largest social discovery company in the world, uniting 60+ brands with 500 million users. We solve the problems of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection by transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal. Our portfolio includes online communication platforms focusing on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming - Dating.com, DateMyAge, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, Kiseki, and others.

SDG invests in IT startups around the world. Our investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Clubhouse, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia.edu, and many others.

We bring together a team of like-minded people and IT professionals specializing in the creation and development of globally impactful social discovery products. Our international team of 1200 professionals and digital nomads works all over the world.

Our teams of digital nomads work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Poland, Latvia, Serbia, Spain, Portugal, UAE, Israel, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and many other locations.

In August 2024, we achieved Great Place to Work US Certification™! This achievement reflects our core belief that a truly exceptional workplace is built on trust, pride, and camaraderie—not just great perks.

We are currently looking for a Senior Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join our core infrastructure team.

Your main tasks will be:

• Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters on-premises environments.
• Architect, deploy, and operate distributed storage systems like Ceph, MinIO
• Build, monitor, and maintain our logging platform (ELK).
• Design and implement automated infrastructure solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for provisioning, scaling, and monitoring infrastructure components.
• Troubleshoot and resolve both local and complex issues related to infrastructure, hardware, networking, and messaging brokers systems.

We expect from you:

• Kubernetes
  - Experience with control plane components (kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler)
  - Strong knowledge of routed networking in Kubernetes (kube-router)
  - Hands-on experience with container runtime (containerd)
  - Proficiency in Kubernetes storage solutions (etcd)
  - Experience with PKI and certificate management (HashiCorp Vault)
  
  
• Distributed Storage Systems
  - Solid experience with Ceph
  
  
• DNS
  - Practical experience with authoritative and recursive DNS (Knot)
  
  
• Web Services
  - Strong knowledge of Nginx configuration and management
  
  
• Networking
  - Experience with dynamic BGP routing (BIRD)
  - Proficiency in VRRP implementation (Keepalived)
  
  
• Logging
  - Experience working with rsyslog and Elasticsearch
  
  
• Automation
  - Hands-on experience with Ansible

• Version Control
  - Proficiency in Git and GitLab
  
  
• Monitoring
  - Strong experience with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana
  

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• Vacation 28 calendar days per year;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. According to the paychecks, if you are not eligible for corporate medical insurance, the company will compensate you with up to $ 1,000 gross per year per employee. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in our offices or co-working locations. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years, according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.

Sounds good? Join us now!