DevOps Engineer

What is Fizz

Fizz is the dominant social platform for Gen-Z to connect with their immediate communities. Each Fizz community has a private and moderated feed of anonymous posts, authored by verified students at their school, providing the most entertaining, relatable, and interesting conversations about student life.

Students can post questions, memes, polls, and chat with other verified students while maintaining control over their identity and privacy. Fizz communities prioritize safety, authenticity, and inclusion through community-based moderation.

Founded by two Stanford dropouts, Fizz is currently expanding across colleges and high schools across the US with a mission to redefine the “social network” in a time when legacy platforms lack authenticity and are filled with curated highlight reels.

What we’ve done

We first launched Fizz at Stanford in July 2021 and have since seen >95% of undergraduates join the app, half of which use Fizz every day. We raised a 25M Series B in July 2023 and have established ourselves as the dominant community platform at 240+ colleges and 100+ high schools.

Where we’re going

We are currently in the process of rapidly expanding to all US universities and high schools, with the goal of getting there by the end of the 2024-2025 academic school year. Our team is engineering driven and product first. In order to maximize our product iteration, we give engineers at Fizz a lot of autonomy and full ownership. Some of the things you can expect to work on include:

- Ideating, designing, and implementing new features from the ground up enhance and transform the way students use and view Fizz

- Designing the systems and processes to facilitate rapid user base expansion

- Building scalable community moderation systems powered by generative AI

- Experimenting with novel products to disrupt the way Gen-Z connects with their community in high school, college, and beyond

We are open to candidates of all experience levels who are passionate about being an early employee and want to help drive our company forward.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop scalable services that can support high traffic consumer facing applications involving user interactions typical of a social network.
• Increase overall platform observability by Instrumenting Grafana metrics, configuring alert policies and setup incident reporting dashboard.
• Devise and execute migration and consolidation strategy on Fizz’s database and persistent tier, currently on Firebase, MongoDB, and Redis clusters.
• Take ownership of infrastructure hosting Fizz’s ML data pipelines and embedding databases.
• Work closely with development teams to architect, implement, and manage scalable and dependable systems, including CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment.
• Manage and take charge of the on-call process, including scheduling, supporting critical incidents and outages, and creating robust disaster recovery plans.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and scalable services, with experience in deploying and maintaining high-availability distributed systems.
• Proficiency in containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog, with a strong focus on performance tuning and incident management.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure deployments, and managing version control and configuration management tools.
• Familiarity with database management and migration strategies for systems such as Firebase, MongoDB, and Redis.
• Proven ability to implement best practices for security and compliance in a cloud-based environment.
• Strong collaboration skills, with experience working closely with engineering teams to ensure platform reliability and scalability during periods of rapid growth.

Bonus Points

• Experience working with consumer-user-facing products