About the role
Taskly is hiring a DevOps Engineer (you may know the role as Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer or Cloud Engineer) to keep the product up when a poster is mid-booking and a Tasker is at the door. The app runs on Railway with Supabase Postgres underneath, and it serves people in Canada and India who pay in different ways. A failed deploy or a missed scheduled job is felt by a real person within minutes.
You will work with the founder and the engineers, and you will be the person who knows what happens when something fails at 2 a.m. in one time zone and noon in another. In six months, deploys should be boring, alerts should mean something, and the monthly infrastructure bill should be a number you can explain.
What you’ll do
- Own deployment on Railway: Docker builds, environments, secrets, rollbacks and zero-surprise releases from GitHub Actions. Make a rollback a one-minute action that anyone on the team can run.
- Make CI fast and trustworthy, running typecheck, Vitest, lint and migration checks on every push without flaky failures. A red build should always mean a real problem.
- Set up observability: structured logs, metrics, tracing and alerts that point to the failing step in the payment, offer or messaging path. Page someone only when a user would notice.
- Run Postgres operations: backups and restore drills, connection limits, slow-query review, migration safety and read-only access for analysts. Practice restoring before you need to.
- Harden the edge: security headers, CSP, webhook signature checks, and rate limiting that works across more than one running instance. Document what each header and limit protects.
- Monitor scheduled jobs, such as releasing payments in Canada, so a missed run raises an alert instead of being found by a user.
- Track infrastructure and third-party cost, and propose savings before they become urgent.
What you’ll need
- 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform or cloud engineering, running a production web application. You have been on call and know what a good alert looks like.
- Strong Docker and CI/CD experience, ideally with GitHub Actions. You have made a slow pipeline fast.
- Hands-on PostgreSQL operations: backups, restores, replication, indexing and query performance.
- Experience with logging, metrics and alerting using tools such as Grafana, Datadog, Sentry or OpenTelemetry.
- Web security basics in practice: TLS, security headers, secrets management, rate limiting and least-privilege access.
- You write runbooks and post-incident notes that another engineer can follow at night.
Education: A degree in computer science is welcome but not required; systems you have kept running matter more.
Nice to have
- Railway, Fly.io, Render or a similar platform, and a view on when to move to Kubernetes or AWS.
- Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code, and a cloud bill you actually read.
- Experience with Cloudflare or another CDN and WAF.
- Experience at a marketplace (Airbnb, Uber, Urban Company, Swiggy, Airtasker, TaskRabbit, Upwork) or another two-sided product.
Skills and tools
- Railway
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- CI/CD
- PostgreSQL
- Observability
- Grafana
- Sentry
- OpenTelemetry
- Rate Limiting
- Terraform
- Linux
- AWS
Where you’ll work
- Remote. Fully remote. Open to people who live and can legally work in India, the United States, Canada or the United Arab Emirates. You work from your own country, so there is no relocation and no visa to arrange.
- Shared hours. The team overlaps for two hours each weekday: 8:30–10:30 am Eastern · afternoon in Dubai, evening in India. The rest of your day is yours to arrange.
How we hire
- 1Apply in about five minutes: your resume and a few questions
- 2A 45-minute conversation with the person you’d work beside
- 3One paid day on a real problem
- 4A decision in writing, with the reason
A person replies to every application within ten working days, even if it’s a no.
About Taskly
Taskly is a marketplace for getting anything done. Someone posts a task in their own words — typed, spoken or as a photo — and people who have been reviewed and approved send offers at a firm price. They pick one, and it gets done: a TV mounted, a website built, a parent taught to use their phone. We’re live in Canada and India and opening to more countries, built by a small team that works remotely across India, the US, Canada and the UAE.
Questions about this role
Straight answers to what people ask most.
Is the DevOps Engineer role remote?
Yes, fully remote. You can work from India, the United States, Canada or the United Arab Emirates, and the team overlaps for two hours each weekday: 8:30–10:30 am Eastern · afternoon in Dubai, evening in India.
How much experience do I need?
About 4+ years. It’s a guide, not a cut-off: if you can do the work described here, apply.
What does the DevOps Engineer role pay?
Pay isn’t listed here yet. It depends on the country you work from and your experience, and it’s discussed openly in your first conversation.
How do I apply?
Upload your resume on the application page and answer a few short questions. It takes about five minutes, with no cover letter and no account. A person replies within ten working days, yes or no.
What does the hiring process look like?
A 45-minute conversation with the person you’d work beside, then one paid day on a real problem, then a decision in writing, with the reason.
Which stack will I work with?
Railway for hosting, Docker for builds, GitHub Actions for CI and Supabase Postgres for data, with a Next.js 16 and TypeScript app on top. You can propose changes, backed by what they cost and what they fix.
Something else? Ask it in your application. A person reads it and answers within ten working days.
We don’t use AI to screen, score or rank applications: a person reads every one. If you upload a resume, AI reads it only to pre-fill your form, and you check every field before you send.
Taskly is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of every background, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and nationality, and we don’t ask about any of them. If anything about the process doesn’t work for you, tell us in your application and we’ll change it.
Apply for DevOps Engineer
Your resume and a few questions. About five minutes, no cover letter, no account.
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