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Feb 27, 2023

DevOps Engineer

  • RISC Zero
Full time Dev ops

Job Description

What we do
RISC Zero is on a mission to fix the internet. We're a diverse group of hackers, futurists, and nerds dedicated to making the internet the place we all deserve. We've already built the world's first zero knowledge virtual machine capable of running arbitrary code as a zero knowledge proof. We're now building an ecosystem on top of it.
We have a transparent pay structure with above market salaries and premium benefits. We've all been part of many startups before, so we care a lot about making sure everyone is treated fairly - when it comes to equity, founders have no meaningful advantage over the rest of the employees. You'll have tremendous ability to take part in changing the world, and we believe that deserves meaningful ownership.
What you’ll do
As a DevOps engineer at RISC Zero, you’ll work on the implementation and optimization of both our centralized and decentralized services. Further, you’ll work with other developers to understand the best ways to deploy, monitor, and debug these services.
Who you are
You deeply understand the intricacies of making web services operate efficiently at scale. You’re familiar with several cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and know how to use them to balance reliability, observability, usability, and lock-in. You know how to work efficiently with service developers to ensure best practices for and tight interaction between both code and infrastructure. You’ve thought deeply about management of decentralized services.

More specifically, you’ve probably done most of:

    • Used cloud platforms to deploy web services at large scale
    • Built dashboards for service observability
    • Built web services from the ground up
    • Analyzed infrastructure for potential vulnerabilities
That said, we're looking for people who love this problem and are dedicated to making it work. If you don't perfectly match the description but you're still interested - apply anyways. We're always ready to bring on great people, even if we weren't expecting it.

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RISC Zero

We are going to fix the internet.

Yes, you read that right. The internet of today is largely owned by Amazon and its competitors, and users of most platforms on the internet have very little control over how their data is used. We believe that blockchain technology has the potential to create a more open internet where competition thrives and users own their own data. Blockchains like Ethereum have proven that we can build fantastic user applications on Web3. However; the problem with existing blockchain tech is that it doesn’t scale. It’s too expensive and slow for everyday people to transact. We are aiming to fix that.

RISC Zero is a cutting edge technology company that is using Zero Knowledge Proofs to scale blockchain tech. We have created an open source virtual machine using RISC-V which will allow developers without experience in Solidity or other custom built blockchain languages to begin building decentralized applications. Our goal is to make the future of Web3 cheaper, faster and more private. 

We have a super transparent pay structure, and we pay above market salaries with premium benefits. Additionally, the founders have created a fair equity compensation plan that is designed to create real stakeholders. There is no cliff, which means you begin vesting from Day 1. 

We have assembled a diverse team of hackers, crypto futurists and nerds to take back the web. We are looking for talented people of all backgrounds, in any location, to join us on our mission.