Senior Cloud Engineer
Fandom•San Francisco, CA
About The Position
Fandom is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to evolve and support the infrastructure behind its platform. This hands-on role focuses on building reliable, scalable systems in a Linux and Kubernetes-based environment. As part of the TechOps team, the engineer reports to the Manager of TechOps and works closely with developers, product engineers, and infrastructure teams. The role contributes to CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and cloud efforts to help keep the platform fast, stable, and secure.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in Technical/Network Operations, DevOps, or SRE roles managing large-scale production platforms.
- Deep proficiency in Linux systems administration, networking protocols including TCP/IP and routing, secure systems practices, and scripting or programming with Go, Python, or Bash.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins, and monitoring and reliability systems such as Prometheus.
- Experience managing production MySQL database environments, including replication topologies, failover mechanisms, and performance tuning.
- Ability to use generative AI tools such as Gemini or NotebookLM to enhance productivity and critically audit outputs for accuracy, security, and context.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced Cloudflare expertise, including CDN optimization, WAF security, DNS management, edge performance tuning, and Cloudflare Tunnels.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, edge caching, and centralized log management using the ELK stack.
- Experience defining SLOs and instrumentation, implementing meaningful metrics, logs, and traces, reducing alert noise, and driving postmortem action items.
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and scale high-availability routing architectures that balance and secure global user traffic across on-premise datacenters, AWS, and GCP.
- Manage and automate cloud and edge infrastructure as code using Terraform and Chef, including configurations for Kubernetes, Cloudflare services, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintain and optimize large-scale production environments, including MySQL replication, automated failover, disaster recovery, and system monitoring.
- Develop internal tools for operational automation, system and data backups, performance tuning, and security monitoring.
- Lead planning meetings, retrospectives, and root cause analyses, and evaluate systems against industry best practices.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to incidents, and collaborate with and mentor cross-functional engineering teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Training, including unlimited Udemy and more.
- Flexible working hours and time off.
- Equity and retirement programs, including 401(k) match.
- Paid parental leave.
- Vibrant team culture.
- International work environment with start-up culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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