DevOps Engineer

About Cypris:

At Cypris, we're building the single ecosystem for global innovation data. Cypris is an AI-powered research tool that centralizes data sources like scientific papers, global patents, market news, and company data into one platform. Cypris arms users with access to unique insights from 500M+ global data points, answering key questions about their market, competitors, core technologies & more to support new product development, commercial strategy & accelerate global innovation.

We’re connecting R&D teams to the global innovation landscape like the Bloomberg Terminal did for the finance world & Pitchbook for venture capital. Current users include leading R&D & innovation teams at mid-size to Fortune 100 companies operating in emerging markets like aerospace, genomics, cancer research, autonomous vehicles, and more.

Overview

Cypris is seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our fast-growing team. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will play a critical role in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of our product and its infrastructure. You'll collaborate closely with a cross functional team to build and optimize our cloud resources, streamline deployments, and enable the seamless delivery of our AI-driven insights and analytics product.

In this role, you will:

• Design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Own the reliability of our products by implementing proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to address production issues.
• Monitor system performance, identify issues, and implement solutions to improve stability and performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices with an eye toward cost effective scalability.
• Help establish and standardize the developer tool chain to improve collaboration, productivity, and consistency across the engineering team.

A key candidate will have:

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a related field.
• Proven track record of owning product reliability and implementing proactive monitoring and alerting systems.
• Background with a cloud provider such as GCP or AWS is required. GCP is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, hosted or managed, strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
• Experience with creation of CI/CD pipelines designed to speed deployments without losing quality.

Technologies we use:

• Google Cloud (GCP)
• Python and Java Springboot
• AngularJS
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Postgres, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch

Location Preferences:

We are only considering candidates located in the U.S. and prefer candidates based in Los Angeles, New York, or Central Florida. Remote candidates within the U.S. time zones will also be considered.

Through this role you will get:

• A strong base salary & highly incentivized option structure
• To help drive the future growth of our platform
• To have your voice & opinion heard
• Proper training to be armed with the right knowledge to find success in our market
• All of the necessary tools to drive peak productivity

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I get in touch?

You can submit an application & we’ll be in touch! If your resume and background appear like a good match, we will reach out for an initial phone screen.

Where is Cypris located?

Cypris has offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Boulder.

What are Cypris' future hiring plans?

We're constantly looking for the best talent in all facets of engineering, sales, customer success, marketing etc. We will regularly post new job opportunities on this page, AngelList or LinkedIn. Right now our immediate focus is on Sales, Marketing & Engineering.

How does Cypris make money?

We sell annual access to our dashboard to R&D, innovation & IP teams looking to get in touch with the innovation landscape. We also build custom reports for objective-oriented projects. Both can be included in one package.

What does the interview process look like?

The process depends on the role. For all positions, we like to start with a quick intro call just to make sure we're aligned.

From there, we typically do a longer (45min) call with one of our team members that can appropriately vet your skills & "speak your language" - on the engineering side, this might mean some technical questions, while on the sales side we ask you to build a quick presentation about yourself.

Finally, we check over a few references & ideally meet in person before making an offer.

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