The Role
Design, develop, maintain, and optimize Exoscale’s observability and visibility platform, including Mimir, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics vmagent. Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, and availability through automation and orchestration. Support database platforms including MariaDB, Cassandra, FoundationDB, and ClickHouse, participate in on-call rotation after training, and help evolve large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team 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.
The site reliability engineer plays a critical role in ensuring constant availability of the Exoscale platform. The engineering team at Exoscale works on all aspects from designing & developing products, to their operation and support.
With an expanding customer base and new products to further advance Exoscale's product portfolio, site reliability engineers build and maintain a wide range of technologies. As users of Exoscale itself, site reliability engineers also take active part in improving products.
This position focuses on designing, developing and maintaining Exoscale's visibility platform and helps maintain our database platforms.
Location: Spain, Germany or Remote in EU
Some of the challenges you will be working on:
- Maintain, optimize and evolve our visibility stack, including VictoriaMetrics vmagent, Mimir.
- Designing a scalable platform is a must.
- Take part in automation and orchestration efforts to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
- Improve processes to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability of our infrastructure.
- Join the on-call rotation after completing a training period.
- Help also in maintaining our databases platforms ( MariaDB, Cassandra, FoundationDB, ClickHouse)
Ideal candidates are:
- Proficient with Mimir/Prometheus and VictoriaMetrics vmagent ( or equivalent )
- Experienced with Linux and have a deep understanding of systems administration.
- Experienced with Kubernetes and deployment of applications
- Proficient in Go programming language and understands distributed systems principles
- Knowledgeable with MariaDB, Kafka, Cassandra, FoundationDB or ClickHouse
- Skilled in configuration management and managing large-scale infrastructure.
- Passionate about automation. Looking for ways to optimize workflows and reduce manual effort.
- Team players who thrive in a distributed team environment.
- Curious, autonomous, and eager to learn new technologies every day.
- Strong communicators in English, both written and spoken.
What we offer:
- Flexible working hours and working from home.
- Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.
- 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 are looking forward to your application!
Skills Required
- Proficiency with Mimir, Prometheus, and VictoriaMetrics vmagent or equivalent observability technologies
- Linux and strong systems administration skills
- Experience with Kubernetes and application deployment
- Proficiency in Go programming
- Understanding of distributed systems principles
- Knowledge of MariaDB, Kafka, Cassandra, FoundationDB, or ClickHouse
- Configuration management and large-scale infrastructure management skills
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a distributed team
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation after training
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The Company
What We Do
Exoscale is a European sovereign cloud service provider that offers a comprehensive range of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions, including virtual machines, S3-compatible object storage, scalable Kubernetes clusters, and managed databases. The platform focuses on simplicity, high performance, and strict adherence to European data privacy and sovereignty laws, serving as a secure sanctuary for developers, startups, and global enterprises across the European region.
