About
SOAX is a proxy infrastructure company with a product customers genuinely love and depend on. Our system is a geo-distributed, high-load platform written in Go, handling HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5/TCP/UDP traffic across millions of nodes worldwide.
Responsibilities
•Troubleshoot and fix things. Incidents happen. You dig in, find root causes, and resolve them — not "coordinate the response," but actually do the work.
•Rebuild infrastructure properly. Take what we have and make it production-grade: monitoring, alerting, deployment pipelines, disaster recovery.
•Work at the network level. Debug packet flows, optimize routing, understand why latency spikes between nodes in different regions. This is not a "deploy containers and forget" role.
•Automate everything that should be automated. If you're doing something manually twice, build a system for it.
•Drive your own strategic projects. Beyond firefighting, you'll identify what needs fixing at a structural level, propose it, get alignment, and own it end-to-end. This isn't a role where someone else does all the thinking and hands you a backlog.
Requirements
•Networking fundamentals you can defend live — subnetting, NAT, routing, DNS, TLS. Not textbook definitions, but the ability to reason through a scenario out loud.
•Real bare-metal experience — actual hands-on with physical infrastructure at some point in your career.
•DevOps as genuine curiosity, not just a job — something you built or broke on your own time, not because a ticket told you to.
•A proven root-cause habit — a specific story where you found the actual cause of an issue, not just where you patched the symptom.
•5+ years hands-on in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles. (3–5 years are welcome to apply, but should be ready to demonstrate senior-level systems thinking live.)
•Comfort with on-call and incident response.
Nice to have
•Proxy protocols, traffic routing at scale, or CDN/edge experience
•Self-hosted ClickHouse, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB
•English good enough for a live technical conversation
•Russian a plus but not required
Conditions
•Fully remote, four-day work week.
•Compensation paid in GBP.
•Reporting directly to the CTO.
•Paid time off and sick leave.
