Summary

From our office in the Prime Tower, Zurich, we build cloud-native systems that enable institutional clients to access, trade, and manage digital assets securely and efficiently.   

We are currently looking for a SRE & Platform Engineer focused on application reliability, platform enablement, and the engineering experience of our internal teams. You will ensure that the backend services powering our Trading, Custody, Settlement, Staking, and Pledging platforms run reliably, scalably, and efficiently.  

Our systems run on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), orchestrated with Kubernetes, and are composed of ~25 microservices designed for high availability and multi-region capability.  

This role is a blend of:  

1. Application-level SRE: reliability, performance, observability  
2. Platform engineering: improving the platform used by internal development teams  
3. Tooling: building internal tools that make engineering faster, safer, and more productive  

If you enjoy solving reliability challenges, simplifying developer workflows, and designing cloud-native systems that scale, this role is the perfect fit. 

Responsibilities 

Application Reliability & Operations 

1. Ensure reliability, performance, and the correct behavior of ~25 microservices in production 
2. Investigate and resolve application-level issues, from rollout problems to distributed system quirks 
3. Define, monitor, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and operational health indicators 
4. Lead incident response and post-mortems with a blameless culture 

Platform Engineering 

1. Improve our application platform on GCP + Kubernetes, focusing on developer experience and reliability 
2. Support high availability and multi-region deployments 
3. Work on service templates, automation, and platform-wide improvements that help all teams ship faster and more safely 
4. Collaborate with Backend and Security teams to design systems for reliability from the start 

Internal Tooling 

1. Build and maintain internal tools that simplify workflows for engineering teams 
2. (examples: CLI tools, deployment helpers, scaffolding generators, debugging aids, automated checks) 
3. Improve local development workflows and service onboarding 
4. Reduce friction across CI/CD, testing, and deployment processes 

CI/CD & GitOps 

1. Operate and improve our GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD 
2. Design safer deployment strategies (progressive rollouts, canary, blue/green) 
3. Ensure reliable and repeatable delivery processes 

Observability 

1. Improve observability across logging, metrics, and tracing 
2. Reduce alert noise and improve actionable insights 
3. Build dashboards and tooling that help teams understand system health at a glance 

Requirements

1. Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience 
2. 3-5 years in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or application-focused operations 
3. Strong understanding of distributed systems and modern backend architectures 
4. Hands-on experience operating microservices in GCP and Kubernetes 
5. Comfortable with cloud-native patterns (e.g., Autoscaling, RBAC, Helm/Kustomize) 
6. Strong understanding of reliability concepts (SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets, resilience patterns) 
7. Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) 
8. Experience with ArgoCD or other GitOps tooling 
9. Familiarity with REST, WebSocket, FIX; SWIFT is a plus 
10. Experience building internal tools or automation for engineering teams 
11. Ability to debug complex issues across multiple services 
12. Interest in digital assets and/or blockchain technologies 
13. Strong sense of operational quality, security, and reliability 
14. Professional proficiency in English (German is a plus) 
15. Eligibility to work in Switzerland (Swiss permit or EU/EFTA citizenship) 

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration