Nerdalize is on a bold journey to turn the Netherlands into a huge data center. To make this happen, we need great IT nerds.

We developed market-leading technology to cool server CPU cores that can heat homes while being sold as Cloud capacity. Currently, we focus on the market of HTC Batch processing with a multi-tenant Containers-as-a-Service platform. We build and manage our own cloud infrastructure, help our customers adopt cloud infrastructure in general with a platform that is easy to use, and sell our infrastructure. Meanwhile we can offer all this at a lower price than our competitors.  

The Challenge

Your mission is to participate in building a distributed systems infrastructure that we can scale to thousands of physical machines, build a compute platform to first serve a niche market, and then developing the technology to go big.

So, you’ve got bare metal servers. 10 Gbit dark fiber infrastructure to the home? If so, some high performance routers and DWDM equipment maybe? Or would you rather focus on multi-tenancy in the virtualization layer, storage, SDN solutions? Maybe you’re more into higher level distributed systems challenges like container orchestration with Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad, or service discovery? Whatever your fancy, we get excited by bleeding edge technology to prototype our systems.

Together with our sales colleagues we gather customer feedback and develop our systems further. But sooner or later it’s production time. And if you build it, you run it.

Let’s do this. The world is your oyster datacenter

 

Responsibilities

• Development & Operations of our bare metal management system
• Development & Operations of our multi-tenant compute platform
• Continuously improve development, testing and deployment processes with automation tools and methodology
• Constantly assess new technologies, judge how they can make us faster or better
• Use your analysis and engineering skills to take up complex, unique challenges that more narrowly-minded specialists seem to shy away from (“That’s impossible!” Haha!)

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate has broad engineering skills:

• Provable skills in software development (we do Go and some Python, but Java/C++/Scala skills qualify).
• Meaningful understanding of some existing software architecture, and the ability to propose, design, and implement new ones.
• Familiarity with network protocols, from the lower layers (IP, TCP, UDP) to HTTP.
• Linux system administration & bash skills (also configuration management, etc)
• Knowledge of Linux infrastructure tools (Docker, KVM, networking, storage)
• Familiarity with agile/iterative software development and testing techniques
• Computer Science degree strongly preferred
• Extremely motivated, self activating learner; you want to deep dive into the variety of technologies we are putting to use
• Able to clearly articulate your reasoning process in a technical design discussion, using both natural language and whiteboard diagrams
• Be an emotionally intelligent person who is good at reviewing and being reviewed
• Strong sense of responsibility and an attitude to get it done
• Start up experience is a plus

Culture

• We trust our colleagues and customers and actively seek to understand them.
• We are honest with each other and ourselves.
• We are self starters who thrive with autonomy, and perceive “chaos” as an opportunity to shine.
• We love a good discussion and survive disagreements.
• We are willing and eager to learn from each other.
• We are transparent thinkers and action oriented doers.
• We are passionate about what we work on and take pride in what we develop.

Perks

• High performance and innovation driven working environment
• Having responsibility and impact from day 1
• Strong team spirit
• Team lunch, coffee galore and stroopwafels
• Friday drinks, great parties and awesome team outings
• Sports package: foosball and ping pong

Are you the engineer we’re looking for? Apply by sending your motivation and CV to !

As Business Developer for Nerdalize you will be sharpening the proposition to future clients of the Nerdalize Cloud, building up a sales team to tackle the market and scale beyond what anyone thought possible.Do you tick the requirements below? Get in touch and we make it happen!

• You know your way around computing clouds and ideally Docker
• Ideally you sold cloud (computing) capacity to clients before
• You love to learn from customers as much as you like creating a win-win deal
• You spot opportunities before everyone else
• You know how to build a killer sales team
• You can talk to CEOs, CTOs and programmers alike and give technical advice if needed
• You are an exceptional problem-solver, avid planner and your communication skills are through the roof  
• You speak English and Dutch fluently and are willing to join us in Delft
• You’re not afraid of airplanes or being away from your mama for a couple of weeks
• You want to learn, grow, improve and go go go!
• You are not allergic to confetti and champagne

Nerdalize is building an energy efficient computing cloud by heating houses with computing power. This means a significant energy efficiency improvement compared to data centers, free heating for homeowners and green computing power for our customers.

We would like you to have a critical look at the environmental footprint of our cloud. Specifically we want you to point out improvements to our current hardware design which makes our server not only green, but as green as possible. You’ll work closely with the hardware team, get relevant information from them and provide them with feedback so they can include the green side in their design decisions.

You bring…

• experience with LCA methods from studies and/or previous projects
• knowledge on quantifying energy efficiency of large systems
• knowledge of several production techniques and materials including their environmental impact
• the drive to contribute to the future of a small high-tech startup with your project

We will give you…

• whole hearted support in your project
• project autonomy and responsibility
• flexible work hours
• a team of awesome people
• a lot of stroopwafels
• €200 per month

The ideal project:

• 3 months
• full time
• starting asap

If you believe you are the right person for this internship, but your project doesn’t fit our ideal, don’t hesitate to apply. Let’s see how we can make it work!

Send your motivation + resumé to Thirza Troost ()

Nerdalize is building a true green computing cloud by heating houses with computing power. You can help us do this! We have multiple projects available If looking at this list is as looking in the mirror, get in touch with us and we’ll make something happen!

• You have experience in Python/Go/Bash/$LANGUAGE_X
• Linux is your thing
• You are familiar with modern devops tools
• You have a picture of Andrew Tanenbaum in your room
• You like to work with a small, high quality team in an informal setting
• You think you can kick some ass at table football or ping pong

To build our cloud heating systems Nerdalize has developed innovative and  super-efficient server cooling technology. Are you looking for a master project or thesis project? Does this list fit you to a T? Get in touch!

• You want your project to contribute to the future of a small high-tech startup
• You have a working knowledge of thermodynamics
• You have at least an opinion on several production techniques
• You’re not afraid to experiment and let reality decide whether something works
• You’re capable of designing and modelling control systems
• You are a practical engineer that isn’t afraid of wielding a spanner

Nerdalize is building an energy efficient computing cloud by heating houses with computing power. This means a significant energy efficiency improvement compared to data centers, free heating for homeowners and green computing power for our customers.

We would like you to have a critical look at the environmental footprint of our cloud. Specifically we want you to point out improvements to our current hardware design which makes our server not only green, but as green as possible. You’ll work closely with the hardware team, get relevant information from them and provide them with feedback so they can include the green side in their design decisions.

You bring…

• experience with LCA methods from studies and/or previous projects
• knowledge on quantifying energy efficiency of large systems
• knowledge of several production techniques and materials including their environmental impact
• the drive to contribute to the future of a small high-tech startup with your project

We will give you…

• whole hearted support in your project
• project autonomy and responsibility
• flexible work hours
• a team of awesome people
• a lot of stroopwafels
• €200 per month

The ideal project:

• 3 months
• full time
• starting asap

If you believe you are the right person for this internship, but your project doesn’t fit our ideal, don’t hesitate to apply. Let’s see how we can make it work!

Send your motivation + resumé to Thirza Troost ()