Full-time, Warsaw onsite ~50%, offsite events incl. International quarterly.
Cere Mission
In 2025, Cere is on a path to automate data computation by scaling to thousands of distributed data clusters spanning millions of nodes around the world.
We seek a level-headed, “Navy Seal” type DevOps engineer to help us accelerate this.
Responsibilities
Ownership: Take pride in end-to-end ownership and full accountability.
Ambition: We expect you to grow fast, both as an Individual Contributor and the business domain owner.
Intellectual honesty: Our DNA is to be Socratic and think from first principles.
Proactive communicator: We prefer to ask up front instead of second-guessing.
About Cere from the DevOps Side:
In addition to client-side SDKs and self-hosted components, Cere maintains four stacks that require DevOps:
- Decentralized Data Clusters (DDCs), self-hosted, in-house and community-run nodes.
- Emerging Ambient AI Clusters, on-prem private DDCs with AI capabilities.
- The $CERE blockchain automates these data clusters by providing security and utility to them. blockchain validators.
- And some auxiliary tools expanding from the core team to the dev community.
- DDC nodes (1) are based on docker-compose files. Minor challenges: self-healing, observability, discovery. Major challenges: the zero-downtime upgrade protocol.
- AI clusters (2) leverage Kubernetes to orchestrate secure data computing services on top of the DDC clusters. instances. Minor challenges: reproducibility, blue/green deployments. Major challenges: private on-prem.
- The blockchain (3) is out of scope of the DevOps position we are hiring for now. It is instrumental to understand the interplay between chain-decentralized, data-community-centralized, and AI-semi-private parts of the stack. The desire to dive deeper into Web3 is a big plus, but not a hard requirement for the DevOps candidate as of late 2024.
- The auxiliary tools (4) are centralized and rather standard, think of them as EC2- and Hetzner-deployed HAProxy instances, as well as traditional Web apps.
Ideal Candidate
- Has worked with founders closely, or was a founder before, and has scaled robust and big distributed systems.
- Understands infra run costs, R&D costs, and opportunity costs well.
- Prioritizes hard-earned knowledge over showing off with numbers.
- Enjoys on- and off-site events when we get the team together and work face to face.
Benefits
Base Pay: We offer a market-competitive salary based on your experience and expertise.
Token Grants: In addition to your salary, we provide grants in $CERE tokens.
Customized Benefits: We are flexible in our offers and open to personalization, feel free to ask.
