DevOps Engineer (to Cyprus)

FaceApp is a global innovator in portrait perfection - blending advanced neural network technology with ease of use.

Our team has leading expertise in machine learning and mobile interfaces, and our goal is to make mobile photography and video readily accessible to all mobile users beyond those with artistic professional skills. Our mission is to create the best yet easy-to-use selfie and portrait editor. Our workplace is a creative environment for developing high-quality products. We are looking for like-minded people who are ready to join our friendly and passionate team in Limassol (Cyprus).

FaceApp is the most popular selfie editing app and the top app with more than 750M+ downloads and 500М+ active users worldwide. It offers a fantastic set of highly photorealistic filters with “simple for you and complicated in the background” photo processing achieved via single taps. The app is available in 24 languages for free and as a subscription on iOS and Android devices.

A few facts about us:

• TOP app at 154 countries for iOS and at 99 countries for Android (including USA, Great Britain, EU, Brazil, South East Asia);
• App of the Year at AppStore and Google Play;
• State-of-art technology photo editing.

We really appreciate our team and the relationships within it, and we hope that you, too, know how to build work in the key of a trusting and friendly atmosphere.

In addition to the photo direction, we are launching a video editing direction, and are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to strengthen the team.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of a fault-tolerant auto-scalable service infrastructure capable of receiving and processing more than 2 million images per minute using modern GPUs;
• Automation and support of the existing distributed infrastructure of the service, located in more than 10 regional data centres;
• Provision and optimization of the internal operational interaction of services with each other;
• Setting up systems for monitoring the status of services (hundreds of high-performance servers with autoscaling up to 8 thousand servers), collecting and processing logs (up to 200 thousand records per second), collecting and storing statistics, CI, CD;
• Development of an emergency response strategy for a denial of service in one or more regions.

Our requirements:

• Confident knowledge: Linux, Docker;
• Expert knowledge of TCP / IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS;
• Experience in building production systems using IaaS: GCP or AWS;
• Knowledge of modern methods of trouble-free operation of highly loaded network applications;
• Knowledge of Python, Bash;
• Skills of writing scripts for interacting with the API.

Desirable (will be a plus):

• Experience with Terraform / Ansible;
• Experience with ElasticSearch (ELK);
• Experience in operating the Clickhouse cluster;
• Experience with Postgresql;
• experience with Concourse CI/CD.

Why work at FaceApp?

• Above market wages, formal employment and white wages;
• Cozy office with sea view (we have a "hybrid" form of work);
• VHI with dentistry;
• Compensation of costs for professional literature;
• Sports compensation;
• Compensation for the purchase of a mobile phone (once a year, 50% of the cost is compensated);
• Paid English lessons with a native speaker;
• Flexible start of the working day from 09:00 to 11:00;
• Possibility of relocation to Cyprus (Limassol);
• Comfortable working conditions, a positive atmosphere, an open, informal corporate culture, and a friendly team. Dev team speaks Russian.
• An excellent opportunity, together with a professional team, to solve interesting and complex problems, to create a product that is used by millions of people.