Work at Exoscale

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider, offering a full spectrum of cloud infrastructure services - from instantly deployable virtual machines to S3-compatible object storage. Our mission is to deliver a simple, scalable cloud experience that enables our customers to focus on what they do best.

We’re a distributed team headquartered in Lausanne, driven by a culture of openness, technical excellence, and collaboration. We value diversity and strive to provide an inclusive, flexible, and empowering work environment.

About the Role

As part of our ongoing infrastructure expansion, Exoscale is hiring a Network Automation Engineer to help scale and operate our European network.

This is a hands-on engineering position focused on the design, automation, and reliability of Exoscale’s network—spanning from the edge and core fabrics down to the operating system level. You’ll work closely with a team of platform engineers who are not only building and running the infrastructure, but also using and improving our own cloud products.

You’ll also collaborate with team leads who take part in both technical delivery and project/team management. Your work will directly impact the availability, performance, and evolution of our platform.

What You’ll Be Working On

About You

We’re looking for engineers who are passionate about automation and infrastructure, and who enjoy solving complex problems at scale.

You likely have:

What We Offer

We’re excited to meet you - apply now and help us build the future of European cloud infrastructure.

• Design, implement and maintain internal tooling written in Clojure to support Kubernetes-based workflows
  
• Contribute to distributed systems for job execution and fleet-wide orchestration
  
• Extend and operate our Kubernetes operators for managing firewalling and networking (nftables, eBPF)
  
• Ensure reliability and robustness of internal systems used daily by engineering and SRE teams
  
• Participate in the development and maintenance of Golang-based public open-source tools (e.g., Terraform provider, CLI, Kubernetes controllers, plugins, etc.)
  
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
  
• Collaborate closely with SREs and other infrastructure teams
  
• Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period
  

• Have solid experience with functional programming, ideally in Clojure
  
• Be comfortable working in Linux environments and have a solid understanding of UNIX systems
  
• Have experience with Kubernetes (or a strong desire to deepen their knowledge in this area)
  
• Be curious and interested in building and maintaining distributed systems
  
• Have experience or interest in Go, especially in the context of infrastructure tooling
  
• Be willing to contribute to open-source projects
  
• Enjoy working across multiple domains and technologies
  

• Knowledge of nftables or eBPF
  
• Contributions to Kubernetes controllers, CSI, CCM, or other cloud-native components
  
• Experience with DevOps/SRE workflows and tooling
  

• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely
  
• A modern working atmosphere in a highly technical and passionate team
  
• Freedom and autonomy in shaping your work and responsibilities
  
• Training budget and opportunities to learn across multiple domains (infra,
  
• networking, OSS)
  
• Team events, internal talks, and a collaborative remote-first culture
  

• Design, improve and maintain our distributed block storage fabric
  
• Design, improve and maintain the orchestration of our block storage fabric
  
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
  
• Participate in code & changes reviews
  
• Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period
  

• Have experience with cloud infrastructure
  
• Have experience with designing, building and operating distributed systems
  
• Have experience with deterministic simulation testing
  
• Have a good understanding of underlying storage architectures
  
• Are familiar with Qemu’s io interfaces and io integrations
  
• Are familiar with NVMe interfaces
  
• Have experience with Rust or C
  
• Have an eye for performance and monitoring
  

• 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.
  

• Design, improve and maintain our object storage frontend
  
• Improve our encryption integration and introducing batch processors
  
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
  
• Participate in code & changes reviews
  
• Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period
  

• Have experience with cloud infrastructure
  
• Have experience with designing, building and operating distributed systems
  
• Have experience with Clojure and Java, with knowledge of Go
  
• Have experience with SQL data stores and FoundationDB
  
• Have an eye for performance and monitoring
  

• 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.
  

• Design and maintain our SDN capabilities, exposing firewalling, routing and peering capabilities to customers through an API.
  You’ll work on:
  
• The Rust/ebpf dataplane
  
• The go agent that configures the dataplane
  
• The orchestration software to make the system configurable by the customer
  
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
  
• Participate in code & changes reviews
  
• Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address technical issues
  

• Have experience with cloud infrastructure
  
• Have a background in systems programming and networking
  
• Are familiar with the packet handling primitives of eBPF, or have experience handling production traffic through eBPF programs
  
• Have meaningful experience with Golang, Rust or other low-level programming languages
  

• 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.
  

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

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.

- 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.

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!