Software Engineer – Infra Focus

Responsibilities

• Set infrastructure direction: identify the highest-leverage problems, scope projects, and drive the team to solve them.
• Collaborate and implement new features in the codebase (Python + Typescript) that touch the core infrastructure (e.g. RBAC, Job Queues).
• Own and operate Optiml's GCP infrastructure (Cloud Run, networking, IAM, TLS, and firewall rules).
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and developer experience.
• Own and push to simplify the release process end-to-end: staging, E2E tests, QA, production deployment, rollbacks, and communication.
• Run on-call and incident response: manage rotations, enforce severity processes, and ensure uptime.
• Partner with IT/Security on vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and infrastructure hardening.
• Close documentation gaps and improve observability & monitoring.

• Must have BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong experience with a major cloud platform (preferably GCP), including compute, storage, networking, IAM, and container-based deployments.
• Solid experience building, optimizing, and managing containerized applications (e.g., Docker or similar).
• Proficiency in Python and ability to work within production backend or data-oriented codebases.
• Experience working with databases in production environments (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), with an understanding of performance, scaling, and reliability considerations.
• Experience scaling distributed workloads using metrics, queues, or event-driven approaches.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment (e.g., Git Hub Actions or similar).
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Swiss or EU citizenship (unfortunately due to size, we can't support non-EU).