Principal/Staff DevOps Engineer

Direct applicants only. Please note that we are not seeking assistance from recruiters, headhunters, or agencies for this position.

If you’ve ever envisioned yourself at the forefront of AI and Web3 innovation, then Cere offers the perfect opportunity to transform that vision into reality.

Cere is a cutting-edge Web3 data infrastructure scale-up seeking someone who is not just looking for a job but wants to be challenged to accomplish great things in an exciting venture.

This position requires strong leadership skills, excellent communication abilities, and extensive software development and operations knowledge.

You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, develop and implement DevOps processes and practices, collaborate with the development team, work with security teams, and provide technical leadership.

This role is hybrid, requiring your presence in our Warsaw or Berlin office for approximately two days per week. Full-time commitment is essential, as your involvement will be pivotal in driving forward our ambitious projects.

About the role:

We are a leading Web3 company backed byBinance Labs,Republic Labs, andPolygon. If you’re passionate about AI and Web3 innovation, Cere is the place to bring that vision to life. We’re a Web3 data infrastructure scale-up, looking for someone eager to take on big challenges in an exciting venture.

We are seeking a hands-on DevOps Leader to guide our small team in improving processes and ensuring deployment stability and scalability. You’ll implement the right observability tools, making sure we’re always the first to know about issues and can address them before clients are impacted. Your passion for keeping everything organized and under control will drive success.

Key Responsibility:

• You won’t be asked to set notification channels—you’ll take the initiative to ensure the right people are alerted.
• Set standards for our deployments ensuring stability, observability and notification channels.
• Supervise deployment environments ensuring cost-effectiveness.
• Ensure HA and proper routing / load balancing for multi-region deployments.
• Support engineers while deploying their applications.
• Automate deployment processes.
• Manage permissions.
• Mentor DevOps engineers.

We want a leader, not a manager. You will mentor and work closely with the team, setting new standards and leading by example through hands-on work.

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience in DevOps or related field.
• Experience in Principal/Staff/Lead position.
• Good experience with monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry, etc.) and services (Datadog, Newrelic, etc.)
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Heavy automation domain knowledge and experience with IaaC tools (Terraform, Terragrunt).
• Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and related technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Strong experience with the AWS Cloud platform (EC2, EKS, ECR, Route53, RDS, etc.).
• Proficient knowledge of networking and hybrid cloud concepts.
• Experience in scripting (Bash, Python, Javascript ).
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

About Cere Network

Since its launch in 2019, the Cere team has consistently anticipated the difficulties that the present system would encounter, now highlighted by the swift advancements of AI and the accompanying surge in data. With companies using multiple vendors causing data fragmentation that complicates AI integration, Cere is presenting itself as an objective, open-source solution, with a clear vision: All data should be decentralized. Unequivocally.

For more info, see:www.cere.network