--- title: 'Senior DevOps Engineer at AppNation' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-devops-engineer-appnation-istanbul-c19ezy74d1db' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-28' --- # Senior DevOps Engineer at AppNation - **Company:** AppNation - **Location:** İstanbul, Turkey - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/appnation/5b136345-11cd-475f-b512-b691ed9de8a3 ## Job description ## About AppNation We build AI-powered mobile apps that reach millions of users worldwide. Since 2021, AppNation has been creating products across AI, productivity, and mobile experiences. Our apps, including Genie, Translate AI, and Arch, have reached 100M+ users globally and ranked among the top apps in 30+ countries. We are a team of builders, designers, and engineers who move fast, take ownership, and create products used by millions. ## About the Role We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the cloud infrastructure behind our AI-powered mobile apps. You’ll work closely with our engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and cost-efficient systems on Google Cloud Platform, improve how we ship software, and support products used by millions of people worldwide. This is a hands-on role with ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, and production reliability, with the opportunity to shape our infrastructure roadmap and engineering practices. ## What You’ll Do - Design, operate, and scale infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform to support our mobile apps, backend services, and AI-powered features. - Build and maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform, keeping development, staging, and production environments consistent and reproducible. - Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast, reliable deployments with automated checks and safe rollback strategies. - Deploy and manage containerized workloads, improving availability, autoscaling, and resource utilization. - Strengthen observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and actionable alerts; define and track service reliability targets. - Lead production incident investigation, document root causes, and implement improvements that prevent recurring issues. - Improve cloud security through least-privilege access, secrets management, network controls, and vulnerability remediation. - Optimize cloud spending and performance through capacity planning, right-sizing, and workload-level cost analysis. - Partner with engineers to remove delivery bottlenecks, automate repetitive operations, and maintain tested backup and recovery procedures. ## What We’re Looking For - 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering, with hands-on ownership of production systems. - Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform, including compute, networking, IAM, storage, and managed database services. - Proven experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code using Terraform. - Hands-on experience with Docker and running containerized applications on GKE, Cloud Run, or both. - Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Cloud Build. - Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP/TLS, load balancing, VPCs, and firewall configuration. - Experience building monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent platforms. - Proficiency in Python, Bash, or a similar language for infrastructure automation and operational tooling. - A track record of troubleshooting production incidents and improving system reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency. - Strong ownership, clear communication, and the ability to collaborate with engineers and prioritize effectively in a fast-moving product environment. - Experience supporting high-traffic consumer products, mobile backends, or AI-powered applications. - Familiarity with GCP services such as Cloud SQL, Memorystore, Pub/Sub, and Secret Manager. - Experience with Kubernetes tooling and GitOps workflows, such as Helm and Argo CD. - Experience operating AI inference workloads or optimizing infrastructure for latency-sensitive services. - Experience implementing disaster recovery strategies and validating them through recovery exercises. Why AppNation? - Build and scale products reaching millions of users globally. - Work with talented people in a fast-moving AI-first environment. - Take ownership and see your impact directly in the products you build. - Grow quickly with opportunities to lead projects and shape technical decisions. - Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits, including private health insurance, meal and commute support, relocation support, and flexible working options. Our Hiring Process Application Review → Interview → Technical Assessment → Final Interviews At AppNation, we set ambitious goals and challenge ourselves to build products that reach millions of people. We value curiosity, ownership, and continuous growth. If this role excites you and you're ready to make an impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now, we're excited to meet you! ## About AppNation ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: AppNation is a mobile app publisher that creates category‑leading AI‑powered apps, making advanced AI technology easy to use and accessible for everyone. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly available) - **Headquarters**: Şişli, İstanbul, Turkey - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Yalçın Özdemir (CEO), İbrahim Karahan (CTO), Saffet Arslan (CDO), Mustafa Ayten (COO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Mobile application development, artificial intelligence, consumer software - **Target customers**: B2C – everyday consumers looking for AI‑powered photo/video editing, chatbot assistance, and home design tools - **Mission**: To bring cutting‑edge, AI‑driven technology into the hands of everyday people, unlocking endless possibilities [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/) ## Products & Services - **[Genie](https://www.appnation.co/)**: AI chatbot app that offers access to multiple large language models (ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, Grok) in a single interface – over 15 million downloads. - **[Fotorama](https://www.appnation.co/)**: AI‑powered photo and video generation app, recognized as a Top 10 AI Photo App worldwide in the Rise of AI Apps Report 2025 by AppFigures. - **[Arch](https://www.appnation.co/)**: AI‑powered home design tool that reached over 5 million downloads and ranked #1 design tool in more than 30 countries. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total app portfolio exceeds 40 apps; cumulative user base includes over 15 million downloads for Genie, 5 million for Arch, and millions of AI predictions/tokens processed daily [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available - **Growth Signals**: Headcount expanded to 60+ team members (currently 69 total employees per Built In); consistent new app launches and feature updates (e.g., integrating DeepSeek into Genie in early 2025) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/appnation) ## Competitive Advantages - **Platform approach**: Standardized app‑development platform that enables rapid prototyping and publishing of multiple AI‑driven apps. - **Multi‑model integration**: Genie aggregates five leading AI models, offering users a one‑stop chatbot experience. - **Category leadership**: Multiple apps rank among the top in their respective App Store categories (photo, design, AI assistant). ## Strategic Focus - Continue creating category‑defining AI mobile apps and expanding the technology platform that powers them. - Deepen integration of emerging AI models (e.g., DeepSeek) and strengthen the existing portfolio’s market position. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a forward‑thinking, innovative team that constantly challenges itself and the limits of technology [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers). - **Work model**: Hybrid – open positions in İstanbul are listed as “Hybrid — Full‑time” on Lever; company also offers optional work‑from‑home days [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/appnation) [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers). - **Perks**: Competitive compensation, private health insurance, access to learning platforms, and a supportive work environment with “better‑than‑average” benefits [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers). ## Sources 1. [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/) – Company homepage with product details and latest updates 2. [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/about) – About page with founding story, founders, and timeline 3. [appnation.co](https://www.appnation.co/careers) – Careers page with perks and open positions 4. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/appnation) – Active job listings showing hybrid roles 5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/appnation) – Company profile with employee count, office location, and culture summary ## Other roles at AppNation - [Software Engineer (Backend)](https://feeny.ai/job/software-engineer-backend-appnation-istanbul-q380gekfy4hm) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior Software Engineer (Backend)](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-backend-appnation-istanbul-yawyky7q1x4a) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior IT Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-it-specialist-appnation-istanbul-7pr7wmz7e9ak) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Brand Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/brand-manager-appnation-istanbul-avvermpr7vcd) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior ASO & ASA Manager / Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-aso-asa-manager-platform-appnation-istanbul-bwgv7vq067bw) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/marketing-manager-appnation-istanbul-kf8zw317tjdy) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Legal & Compliance Counsel](https://feeny.ai/job/legal-compliance-counsel-appnation-istanbul-k4h1xytv0dqs) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior Android Developer / Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-android-developer-platform-appnation-istanbul-htqest900ba4) — İstanbul, Turkey - [Senior iOS Developer / Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-ios-developer-platform-appnation-istanbul-xe8xwgkehaga) — İstanbul, Turkey - [QA Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/qa-engineer-appnation-istanbul-gxk3jf5q0d1g) — İstanbul, Turkey