DevOps Engineer

Smartcat was founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content. Today, Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for the global enterprise. 

Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team. It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library. 

More than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

Smartcat’s vision is to realise a world where there is equal access to innovations and ideas. 

Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces and AI. You might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp, and Quora in their portfolios. Despite the economic recession, Smartcat is growing at 150% YoY. It's well-funded and capital efficient, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection and the ability to think and plan long-term.

Mission

Your mission is supporting and enhancing product infrastructure, improving the stability and reliability of our systems, expanding monitoring and alerting systems, load balancing, and scaling.

Your outcomes

• Keep production and testing environments up and running
• Deploy new services
• Support and evolve monitoring/logging systems
• Improve main website SEO metrics (loading speed, caching)

Requirements

• Experience in building, managing, and diagnosing distributed networks
• Solid understanding of container-based technologies and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), ability to deploy and manage them (directly or by using Helm Charts)
• Good knowledge of Clouds (AWS is preferable), ability to maintain the production environment
• DB administration (MongoDB, Postgres)
• Experience in Gitlab CI
• Experience in using configuration management tools and understanding of IaC tools (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, etc.)
• Linux/Unix Sysadmin skills
• Being able to set up VM, Prometheus, Grafana and use them
• Upper-Intermediate English and Russian: both written and spoken
• Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment, requiring extreme focus, a sense of urgency, and persistence to break through
• Integrity, full commitment, and a strong sense of ownership

Our stack

• AWS cloud hosting
• k8s
• Geo-distributed MongoDB sharded cluster for dozens of servers, also some PostgreSQL here and there.
• Elasticsearch cluster, indices for several billions of documents.
• ELK (EFK) for log collection, Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, and Grafana for metrics and monitoring.
• Gitlab for CI/CD
• .net + Vue JS 2/3

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• Innovating the $50 Billion industry
  Smartcat’s innovative business model taps into this $50B language translation industry with a platform allowing enterprise end users to stop using traditional outsourcing and enjoy easy-to-use AI-powered SaaS that delivers immediate high-quality results at a fraction of the cost.
• High-impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organisations
  You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas worldwide. 
• Fully remote team of high-performers
  We are a global team of 170+ enthusiastic people. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more “Smartcatters” than others, such as Boston, NYC, SF, the Bay Area, London, Lisbon, and Yerevan.  We strive to grow aggressively, but we also preserve our high performance, engagement, and open feedback culture. As diverse as we are, we love working and having fun together, and we’re sure you’ll love working with us too.
• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together
  We are looking for someone who will become a part of the team and play a critical role in the most exciting part of our journey from a post-Series B startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing 150% YoY thanks to the strong product-market fit and the culture of high sense of urgency.   
• Celebrating diversity
  We welcome everyone and create inclusive te