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johnsmith 10 months ago next
I'm a big fan of Gumroad and their products! I am considering applying for this position.
developer42 10 months ago next
How do you prepare for a Senior DevOps interview at Gumroad? Do you have any tips?
johnsmith 10 months ago next
In my experience, be ready for whiteboard sessions, coding tests, and questions about your past projects.
programmingfanatic 10 months ago next
Junior DevOps Engineers, you can also prepare by contributing to open source projects!
engineerguy 10 months ago next
Definitely! Contributing to open source projects also shows initiative and motivation.
coderinblack 10 months ago next
All valid points! I got feedback from my Gumroad interview to dive deeper into load balancing, too.
webopsboss 10 months ago next
Don't forget about Prometheus and Grafana; they handle monitoring and visualization needs.
networkexpert 10 months ago next
Familiarize yourself with their network infrastructure: AWS peering, Cloudfront, and HAProxy.
cdnchief 10 months ago next
CloudFront is AWS's fast content delivery network service, and Gumroad makes use of it for static assets delivery.
gatekeepergeneral 10 months ago next
API Gateway enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
rdsrockstar 10 months ago next
Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
rdsrenegade 10 months ago next
Amazon RDS supports six database engines: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora.
rdsmagnate 10 months ago next
Amazon RDS comes with multiple database instances that are managed, maintained, and patched by AWS.
hackerjane 10 months ago prev next
Same here. Been using Gumroad for years now and this looks like a great opportunity.
elonmask 10 months ago next
Gumroad has a great team with interesting challenges and growth opportunities.
hackerjane 10 months ago next
Agreed, I've joined their developer slack group and it's a great community.
codingqueen 10 months ago next
I find learning their product stack and recent development efforts helpful in interviews.
hackerdude 10 months ago next
I've heard that Gumroad is also looking for candidates with experience in CloudFormation.
programmr 10 months ago next
Gumroad has a comprehensive tech stack. Do your research and practice any tools you're unfamiliar with.
reliabilityengineer 10 months ago next
Make sure you're familiar with Sentry, PostgreSQL, and Backstage, since they use them extensively.
opentelemetryadvocate 10 months ago next
Make sure you have a grip on what Jaeger and Zipkin are, as they contribute to observability and understanding the workings of the microservices architecture.
hypercloud 10 months ago next
Gumroad is very much into AWS, aka HyperCloud. It offers features and services such as Lambda, Batch, and DynamoDB.
lambdalegionnaire 10 months ago next
Serverless architectures and running code without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda is key at Gumroad.
lambdafanatic 10 months ago next
Definitely, Lambda is a big part of serverless architecture. Gumroad makes a big use of it.
lambdaluminary 10 months ago next
With Lambda, you can run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Gumroad makes skyrocketing use of it.
lambdaprodigy 10 months ago next
Many companies, including Gumroad, are leveraging the scalability and economic benefits of serverless computing.
codewizard 10 months ago prev next
I've heard great things about their team culture. I'm still thinking about applying.
masterofcloud 10 months ago next
When I visited their office, they seemed to care a lot about team collaboration and diversity.
fullstackfriend 10 months ago next
Gumroad is a big advocate for work-life balance, good to see.
securityninja 10 months ago next
Yes, and being familiar with various security frameworks is always a plus.
secretsnob 10 months ago next
Gumroad's security infrastructure includes Bastion, Vault, and WAF—very important for the role.
containercaptain 10 months ago next
Gumroad is doing some amazing work with containerization, so know your ECS, Fargate, and EKS!
sitedatacollector 10 months ago next
Datadog is used for system monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management.
s3superhero 10 months ago next
S3 is used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. Gumroad uses it too.
ec2executioner 10 months ago next
Amazon EC2 provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud. Gumroad utilizes this for compute needs.
ec2conqueror 10 months ago next
Instances can be customized with additional software, like specific versions of databases, web servers, and other tools, as needed.
ec2commander 10 months ago next
On AWS, for instance, automating elastic IP address association to instances is easily done using user-data scripts.
ec2maestro 10 months ago next
Security groups are virtual firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic for your instances on each network interface.
devopsguru 10 months ago prev next
As a Senior DevOps engineer, ensure you can talk about Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS automation.
sysadminwiz 10 months ago next
Another key point: be familiar with CI/CD practices, and Jenkins in particular.
operationsmaster 10 months ago next
Knowing the ins and outs of container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is crucial.
infrastructurist 10 months ago next
Tools like Traefik and Let's Encrypt are often used in their deployment pipelines. Learn them!
ci/cdjedi 10 months ago next
As for testing and code quality, Gumroad incorporates tools like Cypress, Jest, and Rails Best Practices.
logparseczar 10 months ago next
Logz.io is their ELK Stack platform of choice. Understand this service and its features.
auroragod 10 months ago next
Aurora is used in Gumroad as a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engine.
route53ranger 10 months ago next
AWS Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services.
route53sentry 10 months ago next
Route53 also offers health checking and resolver functionality, very useful when preparing for production at Gumroad.
route53overseer 10 months ago next
Route53 is programmable and provides a consistent API for managing resource record sets and health checks.
route53admiral 10 months ago next
With Route53, you can define your 404 error page and other HTTP error pages using Amazon S3.