Senior DevOps Engineer

Tribe, a brand new payments processor, is looking to continue its rapid expansion in the payments market. Tribe is a group of people that have come together with a singular purpose of making the world of payments simple and accessible. Join our ever-growing Tribe Payments team as a DevOps Engineer and help us change the way this market perceives payments.

Own and improve our apps running on the Kubernetes platform

• Build and maintain Helm charts for our services
• Standardize deployment patterns, configuration, and release strategies
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and security of workloads running on k8s

Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab

• Design flexible pipelines for build, test, security scanning, and deployment
• Introduce best practices (versioning, feature flags, rollbacks, approvals, etc.)
• Continuously improve speed, reliability, and developer experience

Set up and improve observability

• Use Elasticsearch, Prometheus (and related tooling) to create useful dashboards & alerts
• Help teams understand logs, metrics, and traces — turn data into decisions
• Build early-warning detection frameworks and validation/simulation practices to surface failure modes before production

Research & experiment

• Investigate new tools, patterns, and AWS services; compare alternatives
• POC and validate ideas before rolling them out to production
• Bring proposals to the team, explain trade-offs, and lead implementation
• Apply new learning specifically to solve harder reliability/scalability/automation problems and show progress through delivered outcomes

Document and share knowledge

• Write clear runbooks, architecture/infra documentation, and “how-to” guides
• Make sure others can understand, reproduce, and maintain what you build
• Prevent long-term system “decay” by simplifying complex setups and institutionalizing sustainable best practices.

Collaborate across teams

• Work closely with developers, security, product, and operations
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and prevention work
• Align infrastructure decisions with product goals, cost efficiency, and deployment impact; proactively flag technical risks affecting availability/performance
• You have
• Previous work experience as a DevOps Engineer (senior-level, owning and improving production systems).
• Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and GitLab, understanding of CI/CD, logging and monitoring processes, including:
• Operate AWS environment.
• Building and maintaining Kubernetes Helm charts for production workloads.
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining GitLab pipelines for complex applications.
• Undeniable Linux experience and skills.
• Solid knowledge of web servers, networking basics, and bash scripting.

Level up. We constantly explore the possibilities within our industry and in the technology we build. To keep your minds curious we offer: Tribe Learning Days - time freely spent on self-education; Internal & External trainings; Tribe Learning library stocked with tech books; Learning & Development budget for conferences, trainings, podcasts, online courses, professional certifications.

Work - life balance. To increase your productivity we are offering a hybrid work model - you are able to plan your work partly from the office or remotely from your home. You are able to combine your work & vacations, so be ready to plan workations. For 14 days per year you can work from anywhere - and we mean anywhere! Extra days off for your health.

Tribe Vibe & Culture. At tribe we foster a positive and fun working environment, which is called “tribe vibe”. Even we work hard, we do not forget to party as well: be ready for legendary tribefest and winterfest parties, events for the tribe community every month, and regular teambuildings in teams.

Office & Environment. Open, creative and fun working environment in the brand new BLC2 business center with provided parking places. To relax your mind and body - table foosball, table tennis and massage chair. If you mostly work from home - we offer you a home office budget to make your workplace comfortable.