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Working at Exoscale

Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge team based in Lausanne or remote. Exoscale strives to create a flexible environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.

We encourage a healthy work-life balance, value input from our team and help everyone grow professionally. Open source is a large foundation of our platform and we encourage and sponsor contributions to existing or new projects.

We participate in global communities, through our attendance and sponsorship of conferences as well as in local events. We value community, fostering and building a great tech scene in our area.

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Site Reliability Engineer - Database and Observability (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in Europe

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Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.

Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.
As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer.

The site reliability engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.

With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, site reliability engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, site reliability engineers also take active part in improving products.

This position focuses on designing, developing and maintaining Exoscale's core platform and security components.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
  • Maintain and optimize our persistent data infrastructure, including MariaDB, Cassandra, FoundationDB, and Kafka.
  • Enhance and evolve our observability stack to improve system visibility and performance monitoring.
  • Take part in automation and orchestration efforts to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
  • Improve processes to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability of our infrastructure.
  • Join the on-call rotation after completing a training period.

Ideal candidates are:
  • Experienced with Linux and have a deep understanding of systems administration.
  • Proficient in MariaDB and experienced in managing large-scale database deployments.
  • Proficient in Go programming language and understands distributed systems principles
  • Familiar with Prometheus and the broader observability ecosystem.
  • Experienced (or is eager to learn) Kafka, Cassandra, and/or FoundationDB.
  • Skilled in configuration management and managing large-scale infrastructure.
  • Passionate about automation. Looking for ways to optimize workflows and reduce manual effort.
  • Team players who thrive in a distributed team environment.
  • Curious, autonomous, and eager to learn new technologies every day.
  • Strong communicators in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer:
  • Flexible working hours and working from home.
  • Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.
  • Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection
  • Team events as well as training and further education.

Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing to learn are encouraged to apply.
We look forward to your application!!

Site Reliability Engineer - Core & Security (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in Europe

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Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.

Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.

As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer.

The site reliability engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.

With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, site reliability engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, site reliability engineers also take active part in improving products.

This position focuses on designing, developing and maintaining Exoscale's core platform and security components.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
  • Design and maintain our core Linux-based platform ecosystem.
  • Develop and manage our PKI, secrets management, and security systems.
  • Contribute to internal platform tooling, automation, and orchestration development.
  • Enhance the developer experience (DX) by delivering self-service systems and pipelines.
  • Play a key role in the architecture and design of Exoscale’s platform systems.
  • Improve processes to ensure scalability, security, and high availability.
  • Participate in code and change reviews to maintain high development standards.
  • Join the on-call rotation after completing a training period.

Ideal candidates are:
  • Experienced with Linux, including networking and security filtering.
  • Knowledgeable in platform security components and PKI systems (experience with HashiCorp Vault is a plus).
  • Proficient in Golang (mandatory for this position).
  • Familiar with service discovery and DNS systems at scale.
  • Experienced in containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes is a plus).
  • Comfortable working with KVM virtualization.
  • Skilled in configuration management and large-scale infrastructure.
  • Passionate about automation. You look for ways to optimize workflows and reduce manual effort.
  • Team players who thrive in a distributed team environment.
  • Curious, autonomous, and eager to learn new technologies every day.
  • Strong communicators in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer:
  • Flexible working hours and working from home.
  • Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.
  • Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection
  • Team events as well as training and further education.

Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing to learn are encouraged to apply.
We are looking forward to your application!

Data Center Operations Technician

Location: Zurich, Frankfurt or Vienna

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Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.

Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.

As part of our ongoing efforts to grow our infrastructure footprint, we are hiring a Data Center Operations Technician.

Data Center Operations Technicians at Exoscale are key to maintaining and expanding our hardware infrastructure. From managing physical and network systems to ensuring seamless operations, this role directly supports the growth and reliability of our platform.

Challenges you will be working on:

- Execute physical operations and installations directly within data centers.
- Collaborate with local data center teams to remotely coordinate operations and installations.
- Provision, deploy, and replace network components, both on-site and remotely.
- Diagnose and resolve hardware failures efficiently.
- Oversee the replacement of faulty components by coordinating with local teams and suppliers.
- Develop and implement automation for recurring operational tasks.
- Manage and update the inventory of physical assets across data center locations.
- Ensure the availability of hardware spare parts at local data center sites.
- Maintain and continuously improve internal documentation and standard operating procedures.

Ideal candidates are:

- Experienced in working with physical computer hardware.
- Proficient in handling and managing physical network cabling.
- Skilled in managing and configuring network devices.
- Familiar with data center operations and best practices.
- Knowledgeable in Linux operating systems and their administration.
- Possesses strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Familiar with GitOps principles and workflows.
- Experience with Python or Golang is a plus.


What we offer:

- Flexible working hours and working from home.
- Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.
- Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection
- Team events as well as training and further education.

Location:

This role requires candidates to work on-site in one of the following cities where our data centers are located:

- Zurich
- Frankfurt
- Vienna

Regular travel within the same country is expected, including routes such as:

- Zurich -> Geneva
- Frankfurt -> Munich

Occasional travel to other data center locations across Europe may also be required.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Network Engineer team leader (w/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in Europe

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Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.


With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.


Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.


As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Network Engineer team leader.


Platform engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.


With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, platform engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, platform engineers also take active part in improving products.


This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscale's global network at various levels: from the edge to the end operating system via the core fabrics. Team leaders at Exoscale focus on many different aspects including people & team management, project management and technical delivery. Team leaders at Exoscale are expected to contribute on day to day and project technical tasks.


Some of the challenges you will be working on:


- Lead a small team of seasoned network engineers.

- Design and maintain Exoscale’s networks, from the edge to the end operating system via the core fabrics, the out of bound and VPNs.

- Help improving our routing & security automation systems.

- Contribute to improve and maintain our network observability stacks.

- Contribute to our DDOS mitigation strategies.

- Improve our network provisioning and deployment systems & procedures.

- Contribute to the overall design and the architecture of the Exoscale platform systems.

- Contribute to internal tooling development.

- Improve our systems and processes to be scalable and highly available, helping to achieve outstanding SLAs.

- Participate in code & changes reviews.

- Take part in the on-call roll after a training period.



Ideal candidates:


- Have previous team lead experience.
- Have a solid experience with Linux & its Network Operating System (NOS) derivatives like Sonic and Cumulus
- Have hands-on experience on Juniper and Arista
- Are familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols: BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN
- Are at ease with routing daemons like FRR and BIRD.
- Have experience with VPN. IPSEC, Wireguard based.
- Have a good knowledge of Linux filtering with iptables and nftables.
- Have a good experience with Golang, Python
- Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.
- Have an affinity for network observability

- Love to automate anything that could be.

- Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things everyday.

- Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.

- Have good English communication skills, written and spoken.

What we offer:


- Flexible working hours and working from home.

- Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.

- Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connections.

- Team events as well as training and further education.


We look forward to receiving your application!



Site Reliability Engineer - System & Network (w/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in Europe

Apply Now

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.


With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.


Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.


As part of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer.


The site reliability engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.


With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, site reliability engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, site reliability engineers also take active part in improving products.


This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscale's base systems and hypervisor internals including Layer 3 networking and security layers.


Some of the challenges you will be working on:


- Design and maintain Exoscale’s base operating systems and hypervisor fleets including their network stacks and security filtering layers.

- Contribute to the routing & security automation systems implementations.

- Help shape our image strategy, from bare metal to Virtual Machines.

- Maintain the system container runtimes.

- Improve our provisioning and deployment systems.

- Help improve bare metal and hypervisor systems performance.

- Contribute to the overall design and the architecture of the Exoscale platform systems.

- Contribute to internal tooling development.

- Improve our systems and processes to be scalable and highly available, helping achieve outstanding SLAs.

- Participate in code & changes reviews.

- Take part in the on-call roll after a training period.



Ideal candidates:


- Have a solid experience with Linux, its kernel and Systemd.

- Are familiar with KVM virtualization.

- Are familiar with network routing and transport / encapsulation protocols: BGP, VXLAN and EVPN.

- Are at ease with routing daemons like FRR and Bird.

- Have a good knowledge of Linux filtering with iptables and nftables.

- Have a good knowledge of container runtimes.

- Have a good experience with Golang, Python

- Are familiar with server hardware.

- Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.

- Love to automate anything that could be.

- Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things everyday.

- Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.

- Have good English communication skills, written and spoken.

What we offer:


- Flexible working hours and working from home.

- Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.

- Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection.

- Team events as well as training and further education.


Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing

to learn are encouraged to apply.


We look forward to receiving your application!