Infrastructure Engineer

PulseRise Technologies; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 170.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

PulseRise Technologies in Zürich, Switzerland seeks a senior Infrastructure Engineer to own cloud foundations and on-prem edge deployments. You will design and operate scalable, secure platforms connecting robot fleets to operator intelligence, using Terraform/Pulumi, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

We require 4+ years in platform engineering, deep cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), and coding in Python or Go.

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure roles.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong with Kubernetes (including lightweight distributions like K3s) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Solid networking and security fundamentals: VPNs, TLS, certificate and PKI management, firewalls.
• Solid CI/CD chops: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Go, or similar systems languages.
• Track record of building developer-facing platforms that engineers actually liked using.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain cloud foundations (AWS/GCP) and on-prem edge deployments.
• Implement secure networking, IAM, and cost controls.
• Develop fast, reliable CI/CD pipelines for cloud and on-robot software.
• Manage container orchestration with Kubernetes and edge distributions (K3s).
• Oversee edge fleet management, OTA updates, telemetry, and secure connectivity.
• Create observability dashboards with Grafana/Prometheus and strong tooling for developers.

Kenntnisse

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes (K3s)

Terraform

Networking & security

CI/CD

Python/Go

Tools

K3s

Pulumi

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Grafana

Prometheus

Jobbeschreibung

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you'll build the cloud platform connecting our robot fleet to operator intelligence. You'll own cloud setup, deployment pipelines, CI/CD, container orchestration, and the secure networking that lets the engineering team ship code from laptop to robot reliably, securely, and at scale.

This is a critical early-stage hire. The systems you build will define how the company ships software for years. You'll work across the stack: infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, secure connectivity, observability, edge fleet management, and developer experience. Because we deploy on-prem to security-sensitive customers, you'll care as much about hardened, self-contained deployments as you do about speed. You'll move fast where it matters and build things to last where it counts.

Details

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

• On-site Employment: Full-time Seniority: Mid-Senior Level Visa & work authorization: On-site in Zurich is the strong default; full visa and relocation support offered. Remote may be considered for an exceptional, perfect-fit candidate.

Our Mission

We believe robotics is entering a transformative decade, much like the arrival of the internet. Advances in AI, cloud computing, and hardware are reshaping what autonomous systems can do. Our mission is to build the intelligent software that powers physical security in the real world - enabling robots and sensors to handle dangerous and critical tasks that humans shouldn't have to. By engineering the orchestration layer for intelligent security, we aim to create a world that is safer, more secure, and more resilient. We're a strong founding team based in Zurich, backed by visionary investors and advisors. We are engineering the future of security today!

Ideal candidate

We need a mid-senior engineer (4+ years) with a strong track record of building cloud infrastructure from the ground up in a startup environment. The non-negotiables are deep experience with a major cloud (AWS/GCP), production-level Kubernetes (including edge distributions like K3s), and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform). They must have solid networking and security fundamentals (VPN, TLS, PKI) and be proficient in a systems language like Python or Go. This is a hands-on builder role requiring end-to-end ownership, not just maintenance. The founding team is small, deeply technical (PhD-level), and focused on shipping. They are 'serious about building, but don't take themselves too seriously.' The ideal candidate is someone who geeks out on infrastructure, enjoys high levels of autonomy, and is motivated by building foundational systems with massive impact in a pre-seed environment.

What You'll Work On

• Cloud infrastructure: AWS or GCP foundations, networking, security, IAM, cost controls
• Secure networking: VPNs, certificate and PKI management, TLS, and hardened connectivity between cloud, operators, and robots in the field
• CI/CD pipelines: fast, reliable, repeatable builds and deploys for both cloud services and on-robot software
• Container orchestration and runtime: Kubernetes and lightweight distributions (K3s) for edge and on-prem, image build pipelines, secrets management
• Edge and fleet management: OTA updates, configuration management, telemetry, secure connectivity to robots in the field
• Observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting across cloud and edge (Grafana, Prometheus, and similar)
• Developer experience: local environments, testing infrastructure, internal tooling that removes friction for the rest of the team
• Security and compliance: baseline hardening, secrets, audit trails, and the foundations needed for enterprise and government customer trust

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for a senior infrastructure engineer who has built cloud infrastructure at startup scale, knows when to keep things simple and when to invest in durable foundations. You write code, you operate systems, you're comfortable owning the network and security layer, and you care about making the engineering team around you faster.

Your Background

• 4+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure roles
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong with Kubernetes (including lightweight distributions like K3s) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Solid networking and security fundamentals: VPNs, TLS, certificate and PKI management, firewalls
• Solid CI/CD chops: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Comfortable writing code in Python, Go, or similar systems languages
• Track record of building developer-facing platforms that engineers actually liked using

Nice to have

• Experience deploying software to edge devices or robot fleets (OTA, A/B updates, rollback)
• Experience with on-prem or air-gapped environments
• Background in security-sensitive environments: enterprise, defense, fintech, healthcare
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience supporting ML workloads: training infrastructure, model serving, GPU orchestration

Interview process

1. Intro call with Co-founder/Hiring Manager
2. Half-day technical interview in the Zurich office, solving problems on the real codebase.
3. Final culture-fit call with CEO.

The entire process is designed to be completed in less than one week.

What We Offer

• Mission: Build the foundation models that decide how robots see, reason, and act in the real world. Research with deployment, not papers without impact.
• Autonomy: Real independence on what to train, how to evaluate, and how to ship.
• Compute: Access to the compute and field data you need to do serious work.
• Team: Work alongside PhD-level co-founders in AI, Robotics, and Physics, plus a strong founding engineering team.
• Location: In-person in Zürich, Switzerland, with remote considered for exceptional candidates. Visa and relocation support available.
• Culture: Small, international founding team that's serious about building, but doesn't take itself too seriously. Curiosity and quirks welcome.