Infra Engineer

Friendly Captcha offers bot protection which is privacy-friendly and does not require the user
to perform tasks such as clicking images of cars, making it accessible to all humans.

Bootstrapped
Founded in 2020, Friendly Captcha is a fully bootstrapped, profitable, growing business. We are
a mission-driven business first, and a fast-growth startup second. We don't have the
distracting goal of pleasing investors.

Vision
A safe internet accessible for all humans.

Human-first
We aim for sustainability, with a healthy work-life balance. We design our company to be
around in 5 years.

• A place in a bootstrapped, mission-driven business that doesn't have the distracting goal of pleasing investors. We get to design the business how we want it to be.
• A high-impact product that protects our customers’ internet presence, which is making the internet more human friendly. Together we have an impact we can be proud of.
• A small and effective team looking to grow and make a big difference, by being focused. We rather aim for a smaller team that is great, than a bigger team that is good.
• A place to grow personally and professionally.
• A sane workplace where you can have work-life balance, and you can choose between 4 or 5 days per week (with linear compensation).

At Friendly Captcha we're looking for a versatile infrastructure engineer to join our team.
The ideal candidate should have senior-level experience managing and building cloud infrastructure using modern best practices and tooling (IaC, GitOps, etc.). We don't have a separate platform team or anything of the likes.

A solid understanding of Linux, networking, and security is required, and proficiency with shell scripting and one or more programming languages is highly preferred.

Buzzwords aside, we highly value pragmatic, creative, and driven technology generalists, who know how to pick the right tool for the job.

The engineering team is remote across Europe, consisting of 6 people.
You can work remotely from anywhere, or you can work from our office near Munich.

Freedom and Trust
We aim for sustainability, with a healthy work-life balance. We believe that creative and
talented individuals are self-organizing - you get the freedom to shape your work and time how
you work best.

Our stack
Some key technologies in our stack are Linux, Go, Typescript, Postgres, Clickhouse, Redis, Terraform, Packer, and OpenTelemetry.

We see engineering as a way to build a great product, not as a goal in itself.

Unique for our company that we offer an entirely EU-owned stack (so no AWS here). This is a
big selling point for governments and EU companies.

Opportunity
Roles grow and evolve, especially in young companies. We look for those who enjoy learning
new things and are not afraid to take ownership as they grow with the company.

Want to join Friendly Captcha? Please do reach out.You need to be domiciled in the EU, EEA, Switzerland or the UK to be ​considered for this ​role.