Colonist
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Remote. The employer does not say where candidates may be based.
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Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 4 weeks ago
Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Location not stated
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
The employer did not publish a salary, and we have too few comparable roles to estimate one.
What the advert says
Quoted word for word from the employer's advert. Where it says nothing, we say so.
- Working hours
Working Hours: We work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours
- Where you can work from
- Location eligibility not confirmed
- Contract
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Experience asked for
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Pay
Compensation: Paid in USD.
Remote flexibility
Undisclosed
The listing is advertised as remote but does not state which countries or regions candidates may work from.
Why this role is Undisclosed
We only label a role Work from anywhere, Region restricted or Work from home when the employer's own wording says so. We checked this advert under our current rules and found no country or region eligibility requirement in it. We don't guess, so it stays Undisclosed until the employer publishes enough location information. Here is exactly what the advert left out.
- Countries you can work from: Not stated. The advert only gives "Any Location", which names no country you must live in.
- Whether the work is remote: Confirmed by the employer: "Location: Fully Remote"
- Working hours: Stated: Async.
Worth a look all the same. Missing wording is usually a rushed job posting rather than a closed door, so ask where you can be based in your first message, before you write a tailored application.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Any Location, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- No residency or region requirement found in the job description
- Check with the employer before assuming you can work from abroad
The quotes above are the employer's own words; the reading is ours. Always check the original listing and employment terms before working from another country.
Before you apply
Experience: employer states
Written as a requirement
- “You have senior-level experience in DevOps”
- “You have run a message broker in production; we use NATS, but equivalent experience transfers”
Questions worth asking: Nomaders interpretation
- The advert does not say where you can be based. Ask which countries they can legally employ or contract you from.
- The advert does not say whether this is employment or a contractor arrangement. Ask, as it affects tax and benefits.
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About the role
Wanted: Colonist DevOps Engineer
Working Hours: We work asynchronously and value outcomes over hours
Location: Fully Remote
Compensation: Paid in USD. Negotiable based on experience and location
About Colonist
We're building the biggest digital board game platform on the internet. Players start 250k games every day. Last year: 60M games, 3,037 years of play. We're a fully remote, asynchronous team spread across multiple continents, focused on crafting extremely polished digital board games that people truly love.
About The Role
Most apps scale by splitting users apart. We can't. Players share one live game state. Every lag spike is felt mid-game. One viral video can 10x our traffic overnight. Your job: absorb 50k CCU without dropping a single game.
You will own the infrastructure behind every game session: clusters, deploys, databases, the edge, and the path from merge to production. You will make our infra knowledge shared, so no system depends on one person.
What You'll Do
Own the stack behind every game: game, matchmaking and lobby servers on Kubernetes
Manage cluster and cloud resources as code in Terraform
Scale servers up and down with live traffic. Pay for players, not idle machines
Ship updates often, without kicking players out of live games
Keep terabytes of game data and replays fast and cheap. PostgreSQL, Redis, NATS under real load
Defend the edge from bots and attacks. Cloudflare, rate limiting, Turnstile, R2.
Own observability across Sentry and New Relic. Consolidate monitoring and close the gaps
Document everything: systems, decisions, runbooks, so infrastructure knowledge lives in the team
Build self-service paths so other engineers use infrastructure confidently.
When something breaks, thousands notice in seconds. Find the root cause. Make it never recur
Requirements
You love hard technical problems. Scale, latency and cost excite you
You have senior-level experience in DevOps
You have run Kubernetes in production: rollouts, autoscaling, networking, load balancers, and debugging a bad deploy
Requirements
- ·You love hard technical problems. Scale, latency and cost excite you
- ·You have senior-level experience in DevOps
- ·You have run Kubernetes in production: rollouts, autoscaling, networking, load balancers, and debugging a bad deploy
- ·You run infra lean. You optimize before adding hardware
- ·You document as you go. Runbooks and decisions are natural outputs of your work.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, undisclosed, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Colonist, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 28d ago. Last checked today. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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