Lead Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE) (Fully Remote)

Fanbase; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanbase is seeking a seasoned DevOps/SRE professional to own AWS operations, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, environment configuration, and robust rollback procedures. You will drive reliability and scale for a fast-growing creator-powered platform.

You will lead on-call planning, incident coordination, observability, and capacity planning, ensuring meaningful post-incident follow-ups. Strong Terraform/OpenTofu and GitHub Actions experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering with production-incident ownership.
• Hands-on AWS, Linux, networking, IaC, CI/CD, and scripting experience.
• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and GitHub Actions preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS operations, IaC, CI/CD, environment configuration, and tested rollback procedures.
• Lead on-call planning, incident coordination, observability, and capacity planning.
• Strengthen IAM, secrets management, patching, backups, recovery drills, and cloud cost controls.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud engineering

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

GitHub Actions

Linux

Job description

• Establish clear service objectives, actionable alerts, and incident ownership.
• Improve deployment frequency, change failure rate, and recovery time against established baselines.
• Validate backup restoration and disaster recovery against agreed recovery targets.

What You’ll Do:

• Own AWS operations, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, environment configuration, and tested rollback procedures.
• Lead on-call planning, incident coordination, observability, and capacity planning; ensure incident reviews lead to meaningful follow-up.
• Strengthen IAM, secrets management, patching, backups, recovery drills, and cloud cost controls.

What You’ll Bring:

• 6+ years of DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience, including technical leadership and ownership of production incidents.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, networking, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and scripting.
• Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and GitHub Actions is preferred.

A fast-growing, creator-powered social and monetization platform empowering creators, artists, and brands to engage their audiences and monetize digital content. It operates at the intersection of consumer social, digital media, creator monetization, and agentic AI.