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Senior Platform Engineer
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Senior Platform Engineer responsible for improving, maintaining and operating the GCP/Kubernetes platform underpinning Swissblock's algorithmic cryptocurrency trading system. The role covers infrastructure, security, CI/CD, observability and AI-assisted automation.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Drive in-depth analysis of architecture, design and implementation of our system
- Maintain and enhance the existing infrastructure
- Conduct architecture reviews, support vulnerability and incident response
- Drive and track progress of infrastructure changes from concept to production
- Perform workload and complexity assessments
- Run security audits
- Influence the technical direction of new services and initiatives
- Work with engineers to define and uphold our concepts, SRE, and DevOps best practices
- Evaluate and roll out AI-assisted tooling for the engineering team
What we're looking for
- At least 5 years of working experience with operating production infrastructure
- Deep knowledge and experience in GCP and Kubernetes at administrator level
- Observability administration knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
- Infrastructure as code experience in a CI/CD DevOps environment (Terraform, GCP Config Connector, Argo projects)
- Unix, Linux, shell scripting, and networking experience
- Solid working knowledge of infrastructure security, including secret and encryption management
- Strong interest in AI methodology and automation
- Proactive automation mindset, with a drive to remove repetitive work
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive attitude
- Strong sense for quality, reliability, and genuine curiosity to learn new things
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted workflows and automation in engineering or operations
- Deep understanding and experience in infrastructure and application security, including keystore management
- Development know-how to support software engineers (Go, Python, REST APIs)
- Relational, NoSQL, and time series databases hands-on skills (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse)
- Middleware administration knowledge (NATS)
- Experience in operating algorithmic trading infrastructure
Benefits
- Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading
- Self-funded and already profitable international company in a future-proof market
- Great culture and team spirit with flat hierarchy and quick decision-making
- Work-life balance with a remote-first culture (Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland)
- Competitive compensation scheme with an annual bonus
- 25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance and regular company events
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About Swissblock Technologies AG
Company creating cutting-edge algorithmic trading strategies for the cryptocurrency market using in-depth market analysis; its software engineers create and maintain the automated trading platform covering data ingestion, strategy generation, order execution, and portfolio management.
Key facts
- Algorithmic cryptocurrency trading
- Self-funded and already profitable international company
- Remote-first culture (Europe) or onsite in Zug, Switzerland
What they value
- Flat hierarchy
- Quick decision-making
- Great culture and team spirit
- Work-life balance