Middle DevOps Engineer

United Tech; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 paid vacation days

100% medical insurance coverage

Sports and equipment reimbursement

Team building events & merch

Financial and legal support

Maternity Recovery Support Allowance

Armed Forces of Ukraine support

Remote-friendly with flexible schedule

Job summary

United Tech is seeking a Middle DevOps Engineer to join our backend team behind a powerful live-streaming platform. You will maintain a high-load, real-time infrastructure, working with backend engineers on scalable systems and leveraging AI tools to work smarter.

You will collaborate on AI-powered features, cost optimization, and automation across CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Remote-friendly with a flexible schedule and global reach.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in production environments.
• Solid experience with AWS services and a self-hosted Kafka cluster is a plus.
• Strong Terraform configuration skills and hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with infra monitoring and alerting tools.
• Practical AI knowledge and use of AI tools in daily work.

Responsibilities

• Keep Kubernetes infrastructure smooth and self-healing with scalable manifests.
• Fine-tune node scaling using Karpenter to avoid waste and lag.
• Build alerting systems to notify via Slack before incidents occur.
• Design Grafana dashboards for real-time health and product metrics.
• Set up Firebase alerts for Cloud Functions to catch issues at the source.
• Roll out Artifactory and enable automated testing in CI for faster, safer releases.
• Own cost control and optimization of infrastructure spend.
• Link Gitlab, Slack, and Approvals and stand up a self-hosted Sentry for visibility.

Skills

3+ years experience

Infra monitoring

AI knowledge

Problem solving

Proactive learning

System thinking

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Flux

Kustomize

Helm

Gitlab pipelines

Job description

We are looking for a Middle DevOps Engineer to join our backend team behind one of the most powerful live-streaming platforms in the industry. You will keep our high-load infrastructure fast, reliable, and cost-efficient while working hand-in-hand with backend engineers on a system built to serve a massive global audience in real time. This is a role for someone who thinks in systems, isn't afraid to dig into the product's architecture, and is genuinely curious about using AI tools to work smarter, not just faster.

About our product : We are building one of the most powerful live-streaming platforms, already connecting 400K+ monthly active users through live events, interactive video chats, and real-time community experiences. Our mission is bold: bring joy, fight loneliness, and deliver safe, ad-free entertainment that keeps people coming back. This is a complex, fast-moving space, and we love it that way! So, you will join a passionate, expert team tackling everything from scaling AI-powered recommendations to launching high-impact, data-driven features that boost monetization and engagement. Every idea counts here, and every release reaches a massive global audience. We are now expanding into Arab countries and Europe, enhancing content quality, and rolling out new features to keep users hooked. We are among the Top 5 streaming products in the US and rank in the Top 10 worldwide. Our next milestone: break into the global Top 5, and we are moving fast to make it happen. Are you in?

In this role, you will

• Keep our Kubernetes infrastructure smooth and self-healing, maintaining manifests that power a high-load, real-time product

• Fine-tune Karpenter so our nodes scale up and down exactly when they need to, no waste, no lag

• Build the alerting nervous system of our infra, piping critical issues straight to Slack before they become incidents

• Design Grafana dashboards that give the team a clear, real-time view of both tech health and product metrics

• Set up Firebase alerts for Cloud Functions to catch issues at the source

• Roll out Artifactory (e.g. JFrog) and unlock automated testing on CI, making releases faster and safer

• Own cost control and optimization, turning infrastructure spend into a metric you actively improve

• Connect the dots between Gitlab, Slack, and Approvals, and stand up a self-hosted Sentry to give the team full visibility into what’s breaking and why

It’s all about you

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in production environments

• Solid experience with AWS services: EC2, ECR, EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, Route53

• Experience supporting a self-hosted Kafka cluster and building custom monitoring metrics

• Strong Terraform configuration skills

• Hands-on experience with K8s, Flux, Kustomize, Helm setup

• Experience with Gitlab pipelines

• Experience with infra monitoring and alerting tools

• Practical AI knowledge and active hands-on use of AI tools (e.g. Claude) in daily work

Would be a plus

• Well-organized and result-oriented, able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines

• Proactive, able to learn fast, strong critical thinking

• Experience with Node.js

What we offer

• Care and support:

• 20 paid vacation days, 15 sick leave days, and 6 additional days off for family events

• 100% medical insurance coverage

• Sports and equipment reimbursement

• Team building events, corporate gifts, and stylish merch

• Financial and legal support

• Maternity Recovery Support Allowance

• Position retention and support for those who join the Armed Forces of Ukraine

• Participation in social initiatives supporting Ukraine

• Comfortable working environment:

• Work from our Kyiv hub or remotely with a flexible schedule

• Modern equipment or depreciation of your own tools

• Investment in your future:

• Collaborate with a highly-skilled team of Middle & Senior professionals, sharing practical cases and expertise in the social networking niche

• 70% of our heads and leads have grown into their roles here – so can you!

• Performance-oriented reviews and Individual Development Plans (IDPs)

• Reimbursement for professional courses and English classes

• Corporate library, book club, and knowledge-sharing events

Hiring process

• Intro call

• Technical interview

• Interview with Hiring Manager

• Reference check

• Offer