Senior Platform Engineer
Pubblicato il 26-10-2026 - Swissblock Technologies in Torino
At Swissblock, we are passionate about creating cutting-edge algorithmic trading strategies for the cryptocurrency market using in-depth market analysis.
Our software engineers create and maintain the automated trading platform, which covers data ingestion, strategy generation, order execution, and portfolio management.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will improve, maintain and operate the platform underpinning our algorithmic trading system in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), consisting of execution clusters, network architecture, identity and access management, infrastructure and application security, CI/CD, observability, and more.
Your role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer with experience in deploying scalable enterprise-grade applications in a GCP / Kubernetes environment.
You will work with strategic partners such as quant engineers, data scientists, and quant researchers.
Together with your team, you will design and implement system architecture, apply SRE and DevOps best practices, perform infrastructure migration, capacity planning and security audits, and enhance automation, resource scaling, cost optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
You will also drive AI-powered automation and introduce AI-assisted workflows and practices across the team.
Most importantly, you will ensure continuous availability and reliability.
Key responsibilities
Drive in-depth analysis of architecture, design and implementation of our system
Maintain and enhance the existing infrastructure
Conduct architecture reviews, support vulnerability and incident response
Drive and track progress of infrastructure changes from concept to production
Perform workload and complexity assessments
Run security audits
Influence the technical direction of new services and initiatives
Work with engineers to define and uphold our concepts,
SRE, and DevOps best practices
Evaluate and roll out AI-assisted tooling for the engineering team
At least 5 years of working experience with operating production infrastructure
Deep knowledge and experience in GCP and Kubernetes at administrator level
Observability administration knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki)
Infrastructure as code experience in a CI/CD DevOps environment (Terraform, GCP Config Connector, Argo projects)
Unix, Linux, shell scripting, and networking experience
Solid working knowledge of infrastructure security, including secret and encryption management
Strong interest in AI methodology and automation
Proactive automation mindset, with a drive to remove repetitive work
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive attitude
Strong sense for quality, reliability, and genuine curiosity to learn new things
Preferred qualifications
Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted workflows and automation in engineering or operations
Deep understanding and experience in infrastructure and application security, including keystore management
Development know-how to support software engineers (Go, Python, REST APIs)
Relational, NoSQL, and time series databases hands?on skills (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse)
Middleware administration knowledge (NATS)
Experience in operating algorithmic trading infrastructure
What we offer
Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading
Self?funded and already profitable international company in a future?proof market
Great culture and team spirit with flat hierarchy and quick decision?making
Work?life balance with a remote?first culture (Europe or onsite in Zug, Switzerland)Competitive compensation scheme with an annual premio
25 days of annual leave, pension, insurance and regular company events
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