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.

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. Drive in-depth analysis of architecture, design and implementation of our system

Conduct architecture reviews, support vulnerability and incident response

Drive and track progress of infrastructure changes from concept to production

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 sense for quality, reliability, and genuine curiosity to learn new things

Hands-on experience applying AI-assisted workflows and automation in engineering xrdbqlu 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)

Experience in operating algorithmic trading infrastructure

Unique opportunity to work on new, cutting-edge technology in financial trading

- Self‑funded and already profitable international company in a future‑proof market
- 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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📌 Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform REMOTE (Roma)
🏢 Swissblock Technologies
📍 Roma