Company Description

Company Description – OleOle

OleOle is building the world’s first football-specific social network and messaging platform for the global game’s 3 billion fans.

Today, football fans are fragmented across general-purpose platforms—Twitter for debate, WhatsApp for chat, TikTok for video, ESPN and Sky Sports for content, separate apps for live scores, betting, tickets, and merchandise. OleOle brings all of this together into one native platform built specifically for football.

OleOle combines:

Twitter-style real-time conversations
TikTok-style short-form video
WhatsApp-style private and group messaging
Live scores and match data
AI-powered real-time translation across 200+ languages
A football history and knowledge layer built to rival Wikipedia
Integrated wallets, rewards, and crypto-only gambling
Mini-programs that allow clubs, brands, creators, and partners to build directly on the platform

The platform is ad-free by design and monetized through transactions, rewards, and platform services rather than attention farming.

Technology Stack & Architecture

OleOle is being built as a native, high-performance platform, not a stitched-together SaaS product.

Core technology decisions include:

Rust for backend services, chosen for performance, safety, and scalability
A native cloud architecture (AWS initially) designed for global scale and fault tolerance
Real-time data pipelines for live scores, messaging, and in-match activity
AI systems for translation, content discovery, and football history queries
Integrated crypto wallets used for rewards, commerce, and gambling
A mini-program framework inspired by WeChat, allowing third parties to build on OleOle without platform tax or app-store fees

The architecture is designed to support:

Massive traffic spikes during global football events
Real-time fan interaction across continents
Secure financial transactions and wallets
Continuous product expansion without re-architecting the platform every year

Where the company is today

Product vision, feature set, and core architecture are fully defined
Design and UX are completed
Development is underway across backend, mobile, AI, and infrastructure
OleOle Sport (the hard-to-get ticket and travel business) provides a real revenue engine and traffic driver
The focus now is execution, reliability, and scale

OleOle is not experimenting with ideas—we are building a platform meant to last for decades.

Job Description

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer / Platform Reliability Lead

OleOle is looking for a senior DevOps leader to own the reliability, scalability, and operational integrity of a global, real-time football platform.

This s a hands-on leadership role. The core architecture, technologies, and product direction are already defined. The focus now is execution—building infrastructure that scales cleanly, fails gracefully, and supports millions of users during the world’s biggest sporting moments.

You will be responsible for ensuring that a complex, multi-system platform operates as one reliable, observable, and secure system.

What you will own

End-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure and platform reliability
Design and operation of high-availability, fault-tolerant systems
Kubernetes-based environments supporting real-time social, messaging, AI, and financial services
CI/CD pipelines that are safe, repeatable, and trusted by engineers
Monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response across the entire platform
Security, access control, secrets management, and operational best practices
Production readiness for traffic spikes tied to live matches and global tournaments

This role exists to prevent problems before users ever see them and to restore systems quickly and calmly when issues occur.

What you’ll work on

Operating and scaling real-time systems for live scores, messaging, and in-match activity
Supporting AI translation workloads without impacting core platform performance
Ensuring wallet, rewards, and financial infrastructure remain secure, auditable, and always available
Managing production-grade MediaWiki infrastructure used for large-scale football history content
Designing failover strategies so no single system can take down the platform
Creating clear separation between development, staging, and production environments

What we’re looking for

Required

7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles
Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native architectures
Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
Proven track record running high-traffic, real-time production systems
Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
Strong understanding of Linux, networking, and system debugging
Experience designing systems for reliability, not just deployment

Strong plus

Experience supporting crypto platforms, wallets, or exchanges
Experience with Rust or high-performance backend systems
Experience with live data feeds, sports, trading, or messaging platforms
Prior ownership of incident response and on-call operations

How you work

You think in systems, not tickets
You anticipate failure modes instead of reacting to them
You communicate clearly and directly when something is unsafe or broken
You are comfortable making decisions and taking ownership
You focus on stability, clarity, and long-term maintainability

This is not a role for someone who wants to debate architecture endlessly. The decisions are made. This role is about making them work in the real world.

Qualifications

Required Experience

7–10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
Prior experience at a startup or high-growth technology company, ideally from early or mid-stage through scale
Proven ownership of production infrastructure for high-traffic, real-time platforms
Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred)
Strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments
Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or equivalent)
Demonstrated ability to design systems for reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability
Experience leading or owning incident response and production operations

Strongly Preferred

Working knowledge of Rust or experience supporting high-performance backend systems
Experience with blockchain, crypto wallets, or exchange infrastructure
Background in fintech, payments, trading, or financial systems
Experience securing systems that handle transactions, keys, and sensitive data
Familiarity with real-time data pipelines, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures

What distinguishes a great candidate

You have seen platforms break under real-world pressure — and fixed them
You understand how early technical decisions affect long-term scale
You know when to move fast and when stability matters more
You think in terms of risk, failure modes, and blast radius
You are comfortable taking ownership without needing constant direction

What we are not looking for

Junior or mid-level DevOps engineers
Candidates without real production ownership
Purely theoretical or certification-only backgrounds
Engineers who want to debate decisions instead of executing them

Additional Information

Solutions not problems .

Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization. Not interested in best practices, lets build something better!
Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

Ole Ole is located in beautiful Austin Texas, however, this role requires some travel we are privately held and rapidly growing!

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