TL;DR
Senior Platform Engineer (Fintech): Building and operating critical infrastructure for a digital asset trading platform with an accent on automation, resilience, and high-scale system reliability. Focus on designing cloud-native services, managing complex production environments using Kubernetes and IaC, and ensuring system availability for institutional financial operations.
Location: Must be based in Switzerland (Geneva, Zurich, or Lausanne) with hybrid office attendance required.
Company
Taurus is a leading fintech provider of digital asset infrastructure, offering regulated trading and custody solutions for digital currencies, tokenized securities, and stablecoins to banks and financial institutions.
What you will do
- Ensure production environments remain stable, efficient, and resilient.
- Manage the full lifecycle of development, testing, and production services.
- Design and implement cost-effective, large-scale cloud, networking, and storage infrastructure.
- Automate operational tasks and improve monitoring and alerting systems.
- Provide on-call support to ensure service availability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience operating services in complex, demanding environments.
- Deep understanding of SRE principles, incident management, and performance tuning.
- Proven expertise in Linux and modern DevOps tooling including Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Proficiency in scripting and software development (Python, Shell, Go, or Java).
- Experience with database manipulation using SQL.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in the financial services industry.
- Background in leading and organizing engineering teams.
Culture & Benefits
- Work at the intersection of blockchain, digital assets, and finance.
- Collaborate with world-renowned experts in a fast-paced environment.
- State-of-the-art technology stack and IT infrastructure.
- Hybrid remote work policy with flexible working hours.
- Opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing entrepreneurial venture.
