Senior Platform Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Swissblock Technologies, you improve, maintain, and operate the platform underpinning our algorithmic trading system on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You work across execution clusters, network architecture, identity and access management, infrastructure and application security, CI/CD, and observability, partnering with quant engineers, data scientists, and quant researchers to design system architecture, apply SRE and DevOps best practices, and ensure continuous availability and reliability.

What you'll do

• Drive in-depth analysis of the architecture, design, and implementation of our system
• Maintain and enhance the existing infrastructure
• Conduct architecture reviews and 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 SRE and DevOps best practices
• Evaluate and roll out AI-assisted tooling for the engineering team

What you bring

• At least 5 years of working experience operating production infrastructure
• Deep knowledge and experience in GCP and Kubernetes at administrator level
• Observability administration knowledge with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
• Infrastructure as code experience in a CI/CD DevOps environment using Terraform, GCP Config Connector, and 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
• A 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 using Go, Python, and REST APIs
• Hands-on skills with relational, NoSQL, and time series databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and ClickHouse
• Middleware administration knowledge with NATS
• Experience operating algorithmic trading infrastructure

What we offer

• A unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in financial trading
• A self-funded and already profitable international company operating in a future-proof market
• A strong culture and team spirit with a flat hierarchy and quick decision-making
• Work-life balance with a remote-first culture across Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland
• Competitive compensation scheme with an annual bonus
• 25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance, and regular company events

About Swissblock Technologies

Swissblock Technologies creates cutting-edge algorithmic trading strategies for the cryptocurrency market. We build an automated trading platform covering data ingestion, strategy generation, order execution, and portfolio management.