Fly Is Hiring SREs

Fly.io is currently hiring for their SRE team and offers an interesting platform that converts container images into fleets of Firecracker VMs running on their hardware worldwide. The company values a strong ops culture, with everyone contributing to operations work. They use Linux, HashiCorp stack, Firecracker, WireGuard, Rails-based GraphQL API, Prometheus-style metrics cluster, ElasticSearch cluster for logging, and Sensu Go monitoring system. Fly.io is a remote team with members in various locations and offers health care for US employees, flexible vacation time, hardware/phone allowances, and other standard benefits. They have an unusual hiring process that focuses on discovering new talent rather than relying solely on resumes or interviews. The role involves wearing multiple hats such as managing server fleets, configuring alert systems, shipping features with canaries or blues and greens, diagnosing networking issues, and expanding data centers globally. Candidates should be comfortable coding in Python, Ruby, or Go. Interested applicants can email [email protected] for more information.