Site Reliability Engineer - Confidential Computing (f/m/d)

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 to help its clients focus on their core business.

Join a dynamic working environment with a multi-cultural cutting‑edge team distributed across Europe. With headquarters 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, development, and implementation of Confidential Computing at the hypervisor level.
• Design and maintain Exoscale’s operating systems and hypervisor fleets, from kernels to the network stacks, including security filtering layers.
• Contribute to the routing and security automation system implementations.
• Help shape our operating system images strategy, from bare metal to virtual machines.
• Maintain and improve the system container runtimes.
• Improve our provisioning and deployment systems.
• Help improve bare metal and hypervisor systems performance.
• Contribute to the overall design and 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 and changes reviews.
• Take part in the on‑call rotation after a training period.

Ideal Candidates

• Solid experience with Linux, its kernel, and Systemd.
• Familiarity with Confidential Computing and related concepts, including hardware‑level ones (AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of Secure Boot, chain of trust, attestation, and key management.
• Experience with KVM virtualization.
• Good knowledge of eBPF.
• Good knowledge of container runtimes.
• Experience with Golang and Python.
• Experience with configuration management solutions and large‑scale infrastructure.
• Passion for automation and documentation.
• Curiosity, autonomy, and willingness to learn new things every day.
• Team player aptitude and comfort with distributed teams.
• Good English communication skills, written and spoken.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home.
• Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create and challenge.
• Collaborative culture, working alongside talented engineers in a supportive environment.
• 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!