Colonist

DevOps Engineer

Any Location, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own the infrastructure behind every game session including clusters, deploys, databases, the edge, and the path from merge to production. You will manage Kubernetes, Terraform, and scale servers with live traffic.

What you will 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
  • Ship updates often, without kicking players out of live games
  • Keep terabytes of game data and replays fast and cheap using PostgreSQL, Redis, NATS
  • Defend the edge from bots and attacks using Cloudflare, rate limiting, Turnstile, R2
  • Own observability across Sentry and New Relic
  • Document systems, decisions, and runbooks
  • Build self-service paths for other engineers
  • Find the root cause when something breaks

Required qualifications

  • Senior-level experience in DevOps
  • Run Kubernetes in production: rollouts, autoscaling, networking, load balancers, and debugging a bad deploy
  • Run infra lean
  • Document as you go
  • Comfortable with Linux, Docker, and a CI system you did not build
  • Operated PostgreSQL and Redis under real traffic
  • Run a message broker in production
  • Put Cloudflare, or a similar edge, in front of a public service
  • Debug a live incident across app logs, metrics, the database, and the edge
  • AI-forward mindset
  • Deeply independent
  • Strong written communication

Nice to have

  • Experience structuring documentation for AI consumption
  • Experience building self-service infrastructure paths for other engineers
  • Security depth beyond the basics
  • Run real-time or multiplayer systems where shared state matters
  • Previous experience as a solo or near-solo infrastructure engineer at a small company

Benefits

  • 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

About the company

Colonist is building the biggest digital board game platform on the internet. They are a fully remote, asynchronous team focused on crafting polished digital board games.