What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer / Ruby position at Jobgether?
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer / Ruby in Brazil.
In this role, you will contribute to the stability, scalability, and evolution of a high-traffic cloud infrastructure powering large-scale consumer-facing applications used by millions of users worldwide. You will work closely with distributed engineering teams to maintain and modernize a complex Ruby-based API ecosystem operating at massive scale. The environment is highly collaborative and pairing-driven, requiring strong communication and shared ownership of engineering outcomes. You will play a key role in improving system reliability, deployment consistency, and architectural standards across global teams. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving, remote-first organizations and enjoys balancing deep technical DevOps work with hands-on software engineering. You will also help shape infrastructure practices across AWS, ensuring performance, security, and scalability across all services.
\n- Own and evolve cloud infrastructure supporting high-scale Ruby and Rails-based API systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability across global traffic loads exceeding hundreds of millions of requests.
- Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions (including Terraform) to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure cloud environments across AWS.
- Build, optimize, and support backend services and APIs, contributing to architectural decisions and improving system design beyond standard MVC patterns.
- Collaborate in a highly distributed, pairing-heavy engineering culture, actively participating in daily cross-team coding sessions and technical discussions.
- Mentor and guide engineers on DevOps practices, system design, and operational excellence while supporting continuous improvement of engineering workflows.
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines, testing practices, and observability systems to improve deployment speed, system reliability, and incident response.
Requirements
- 8 years of software engineering experience, including 5 years in DevOps or infrastructure-focused roles within cloud environments such as AWS.
- Strong expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, Linux, and modern cloud infrastructure tooling, with hands-on experience designing scalable systems.
- Solid development experience in Ruby, Rails, or similar backend languages such as Python, Java, Go, or .NET.
- Deep understanding of software architecture patterns, distributed systems, and production-grade system reliability practices.
- Proven experience working in remote, globally distributed teams with strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Comfortable with pair programming, code reviews, and evaluating AI-generated or automated code outputs critically and effectively.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive complex technical initiatives from design through production.
Benefits
- Fully remote, global-first work environment across North America, South America, and Europe
- Flexible time off and paid holidays, including dedicated mid-year rest periods
- Home office stipend to support a comfortable and productive setup
- Paid parental leave
- Retirement savings plan with employer contribution (US-based employees)
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage (US-based employees)
- Strong culture of collaboration, pairing, and continuous learning across distributed teams
- Opportunity to work on high-scale systems serving millions of global users
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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