Navy Seal DevOps Engineer

Cerebellum Network; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 405,000 - 470,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Web3 company in Warsaw seeks a DevOps engineer to take ownership of distributed data systems. The ideal candidate will have experience with scaling systems and Kubernetes. Join a flexible work environment with a competitive salary of 405,000 - 470,000 zł annually and personalized benefits, including token grants. Face-to-face collaboration is encouraged during on- and off-site events.

Benefits

Market-competitive salary

Token Grants

Customized Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience scaling robust distributed systems.
• Understanding of infrastructure and R&D costs.
• Proactive communication and accountability in work.

Responsibilities

• Take pride in end-to-end ownership and accountability.
• Grow quickly as both an individual contributor and business domain owner.
• Think from first principles and communicate proactively.

Skills

Experience with distributed systems

Kubernetes orchestration

Strong communication skills

Accountability and ownership

Job description

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.

AI clusters 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 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.

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.

Salary range: 405,000 zł - 470,000 zł a year

About Cere

Cere is a leading Web3 company backed by Binance Labs, Republic Labs, and Polygon.

Cere powers data projects in a decentralized way. This includes storage (“S3”), streaming (“Cloudflare”), and AI workflows (“Databricks”), all in their own flavor of blending standard solutions with decentralization.

The unique value proposition is that our decentralized data clusters are federated by the blockchain but are operational as individual self-contained sets of nodes by design.

The Cere token thus has the intrinsic value in that it is in $CERE that developers and end users need to pay to store data, stream data, and run AI workflows over the data.

The Cere team is split between Silicon Valley and Berlin/Warsaw (where we are growing the engineering team).