🛠️ SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER / DEVOPS

⚙️ Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps (London/Remote/Hybrid)

Full-time | London/Remote/Hybrid | £60-120k

🚀 About Tandem

Tired of the endless swiping and ghosting? So are we. At Tandem, we're on a mission to make dating more fun, safe, and less anxiety-inducing by bringing back the double date. We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps expert to join our team and help us build a platform that’s as reliable as your best wingman.

https://tandem.dating/

🧠 The role

As our SRE/DevOps engineer, you'll be the backbone of our infrastructure. You'll be responsible for making sure our platform is scalable, reliable, and secure. We're a small team, so you'll have a huge impact on our technical direction. You'll be working with a modern tech stack and will have the freedom to experiment with new technologies. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about automation and wants to build a rock-solid infrastructure from the ground up.

💼 What you’ll Do

• Building and maintaining our infrastructure on Hetzner and AWS.
• Managing our Kubernetes clusters with K3s.
• Automating our deployment pipelines and infrastructure with tools like Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Monitoring our systems and responding to incidents using tools like BetterStack and Incident.io.
• Working with the engineering team to improve the reliability and performance of our services.
• Implementing best practices for security and compliance.
  
  

🎯 We'll match with you if...

You Have Experience With Our Tech Stack. You Don't Need To Be An Expert In Everything, But You Should Be Comfortable With Some Of The Following

• Cloud & Infra: CloudFlare, Hetzner, AWS, Kubernetes, K3s, Docker
• Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible, or similar
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Monitoring & Ops: Prometheus, Grafana, BetterStack, Incident.io
  
  

You are...

• Someone with a strong understanding of Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Experienced in building and maintaining highly available and scalable systems.
• Passionate about automation and have a strong desire to eliminate manual work.
• Excited about working in a startup environment and happy to wear multiple hats.
• A great communicator and team player.
  
  

🔥 Bonus Points For

• Experience scaling infrastructure for a high-growth consumer app.
• A strong security mindset (DevSecOps experience).
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
• Experience building internal developer tooling to improve productivity.
• Strong opinions on observability, incident management, and SLOs/SLAs.
  
  

🎁 What You’ll Get

• Flexible working hours: We trust you to get your work done, so we’re not going to be watching the clock.
• Unlimited PTO: We want you to take time off to recharge your batteries.
• Performance-based bonus: We believe in rewarding our team for their hard work.
• Fully remote with London in-person possibility: Work from wherever you want.
• A chance to build something amazing: You’ll be a core part of a small team that’s changing the dating game.
  
  

📩 How to Apply

Send us your CV and a quick message explaining why Tandem excites you. Bonus if you include links to your GitHub or any infrastructure projects you’re proud of.

• Email: careers@tandem.dating