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 in order to let its clients focus on their core business.
As parts of its ongoing efforts to grow its infrastructure footprint Exoscale is hiring a System Engineer.
This position focuses on designing and maintaining Exoscales hypervisor as well as overall platform base systems.
Some of the challenges you will be working on:
- Design and maintain our hypervisor fleet including its network stacks and security filtering layers
- Contribute to the routing & security orchestration and automation systems implementation
- Contribute to designing and architecture the Exoscale platform systems
- Improve processes and solutions to be scalable and highly available
- Participate in code & changes reviews
- Take part in the on-call roll after a training period
Ideal candidates:
- Have a solid experience with Linux and its kernel
- Are at ease with routing daemons like Bird and FRR
- Have a good knowledge of Linux filtering with iptables and nftables
- Are familiar with KVM virtualization
- Have a good knowledge of storage components
- Have a background with both Golang and Python languages. Clojure a plus
- Have experience with server hardware components
- Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure
- Are curious, autonomous, and embrace learning new things everyday
- Love to automate anything that could be
- Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team
Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing to learn are encouraged to apply