Senior PHP/Laravel Engineer — DevOps & Infra

Tunga; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tunga is seeking a Senior PHP/Laravel Developer with hands-on infrastructure and DevOps experience to build, maintain, and continuously improve business-critical, data-driven applications while supporting the underlying infrastructure.

The role is about 70% software development and 30% infrastructure/DevOps, including API design, testing, CI/CD, incident response, and mentoring. Strong PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL expertise required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong production experience with PHP and modern frameworks (Laravel preferred).
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and data integrations.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, and data modeling.
• Secure coding practices, automated tests, and code review processes.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling.
• Practical systems administration across Linux, virtualization, containers, storage, backups and security.
• Ability to work independently and communicate with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain applications using PHP, Laravel, Filament, and PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and modernise existing applications and reduce technical debt.
• Design and maintain APIs and integrations with internal systems.
• Maintain automated tests, static analysis, and code-quality checks.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with Jenkins, Git, and Gitea.
• Lead incident response with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Provide code reviews and knowledge transfer to other developers.
• Participate in infrastructure improvements and documentation.

Skills

PHP/Laravel

DevOps

PostgreSQL

API design

CI/CD

Code reviews

English proficiency

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Gitea

Proxmox

Ceph/CephFS

ZFS

Grafana

Icinga

Loki

Job description

Tunga is seeking a Senior PHP/Laravel Developer with hands-on infrastructure and DevOps experience to build, maintain, and continuously improve business-critical, data-driven applications while supporting the underlying infrastructure.

The role is about 70% software development and 30% infrastructure/DevOps, including API design, testing, CI/CD, incident response, and mentoring. Strong PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL expertise required.