Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps

Staff Software Engineer

• Full-time

Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees.

Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.

We are looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of our large-scale AI chat agent platform. This system is designed to support 20+ million users globally, making it one of the most ambitious backend initiatives at Nexthink.

As a Staff Engineer, you will go beyond implementation: you will set technical direction, influence cross-team design decisions, and serve as a trusted advisor to both engineering leadership and product. You’ll tackle problems of scale, reliability, and performance while partnering with AI/ML, Infra, and Security teams to build production-ready AI experiences.

This is a high-impact, high-ownership role where you’ll be entrusted to make foundational architectural decisions and mentor senior engineers, ensuring Nexthink’s AI systems are built to scale with the future.

Define and drive technical vision and architectural strategy for the AI chat backend platform.

Lead design of highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems supporting 20M+ global users.

Partner with product, infra, and AI/ML teams to align engineering strategy with business objectives.

Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, influencing design patterns, coding standards, and best practices.

Architect and deliver fault-tolerant APIs and services capable of handling large-scale real-time workloads.

Champion observability, performance, and resiliency across the stack.

Act as a mentor and multiplier, raising the technical bar and helping senior engineers grow.

Lead technical deep dives, design reviews, and roadmap alignment discussions with leadership.

Ensure security, compliance, and cost-efficiency are embedded in design from day one.

10+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years in Staff or Principal-level roles.

Proven success designing and scaling backend systems for tens of millions of users or high-throughput real-time systems.

Expert in Java (17+), Python, or Node.js, with strong background in distributed systems, concurrency, and high availability.

Hands-on expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS or equivalent), Kubernetes/ECS, and containerized deployments.

Strong experience building and operating mission-critical services with SLAs in production.

Deep understanding of API design, streaming data, and event-driven systems.

Exceptional communication skills — able to influence cross-functional teams and leadership with clear technical direction.

Track record of mentoring and elevating engineering teams.

Deep knowledge of Java frameworks (Spring Boot, Micronaut).

Advanced expertise in streaming platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, Spark).

Experience product ionizing LLM-powered systems (RAG, fine-tuning, observability, evaluation frameworks).

Prior ownership of multi-region or global-scale deployments.

Background in performance optimization, latency reduction, and cost scaling at global scale.

Familiarity with Git Ops, Terraform, CI/CD, and platform engineering practices.

Experience building enterprise chat or messaging systems.

Strong understanding of data security, compliance, and regulatory frameworks (SOC2, ISO, GDPR).

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