Chordify is a music e-learning platform that transforms any song into chords. With our state-of-the-art music technology, we reshape music education by creating affordable, engaging, and personalized products.
Infrastructure Engineer
Our mission at Chordify is to make it as easy as possible for musicians of all skill levels to learn to play their favorite music.
As an Infrastructure Engineer at Chordify, you'll help improve the server infrastructure, for both our users and colleagues.
Within Chordify you'll work in the Digital Infrastructure team - a team whose mission it is to provide a secure and reliable infrastructure for Chordify's operations. Ultimately, our users will have a great experience on our apps and web, thanks to the stable server infrastructure that you provide.
are an infrastructure engineer with professional experience in
administration of Linux servers: configuration, storage, permissions, backups;
databases: replication, backups, storage;
networking;
and ideally some intersection with our technology stack: puppet, mariadb, haproxy, proxysql, redis, docker, nginx, nagios, wireguard, object storage;
understand how concurrent components making up a distributed system (frontend, backend, caching, load balancing, storage, databases, backups) work together;
enjoy constructing, improving and debugging systems of cooperating machines, based on the needs of the organisation on and the constraints of the infrastructure;
are not afraid of picking up new technologies and learning new things;
are mindful of relevant security tradeoffs;
can communicate in English;
have a proactive mindset;
are a team player;
love music;
are located in the Netherlands.
Are a bunch of friendly, open, always caring people, from a variety of cultural and professional backgrounds.
Are an autonomous workforce, with our own flavor of the Holacracy method.
Serve tens of millions of users with a fairly lean server infrastructure.
Have no managers, no micromanagement.
Love music!
Our work philosophy is simple: We believe in an autonomous workforce where everybody takes care of themselves and their work. We call it Chortonomy, where everyone does what they know best, and with all our skills combined we make Chordify. Please read our blog about the heart and soul of Chordify if you want to know more about what makes us tick.
be part of the Digital Infrastructure team - a multidisciplinary team that focuses on maintaining, refining, and improving the infrastructure which runs our internal services and supports the millions of people who use Chordify every day;
set up and/or maintain services for our colleagues, such as CI/CD or self-hosted services;
design new and optimise old ways of doing things in collaboration with those who need them;
use version controlled configuration management to test and deploy your changes;
keep cybersecurity in mind at all times, making deliberate choices between security, convenience and simplicity for yourself and others;
give (and receive) constructive feedback of how things work, both in the infrastructure and in the team;
work 32-40 hours per week.
a gross monthly salary of €3900 to €5100 (based on 40h/week, excluding 8% holiday allowance) depending on your skills and expertise;
a result-based collective bonus of up to 10% of your yearly salary;
flexible working hours;
to work at either our Utrecht or Groningen office and, if you want, partially from home;
a pension scheme;
a daily free lunch, snacks, and drinks;
commuting expenses reimbursed;
a leased bicycle of your choice;
a budget each year to spend on anything music related;
to be part of an international team of music lovers;
to enjoy Friday afternoon drinks, regular game evenings, and team outings;
to make music during work;
to trade public holidays for other days that are important to you;
to focus on your mental health through OpenUp.
Do you want to join our team as our new Infrastructure Engineer? Then we'd love to hear from you!
Chordify is a music e-learning platform that transforms any song into chords. With our state-of-the-art music technology, we reshape music education by creating affordable, engaging, and personalized products.