Research Infra Engineer: Cloud Compute and Orchestration

Seldon Technologies, Inc.; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development budget

Home gym or wellness perks

Job summary

Seldon Technologies, Inc. in Zürich seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to design, build, and scale the research platform.

You will work on cloud compute at scale, implement distributed workflow scheduling, and develop robust recovery procedures while collaborating closely with researchers and engineers to shape the core architecture. You will apply strong Python and Linux skills, plus hands-on cloud experience (AWS or similar) to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and Linux skills.
• Experience operating services on AWS or another cloud platform.
• Understanding of distributed systems (queues, timeouts, retries).
• Experience investigating production issues and balancing reliability, cost, and complexity.
• Initiative, principled decision-making, collaborative problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage cloud compute infrastructure at scale to support research workloads.
• Handle distributed workflow scheduling, optimizing for performance and cost.
• Handle worker interruptions, application crashes, and recovery procedures with safeguards against duplicate work.
• Improve monitoring, logs, and tools for diagnosing failures across the system.

Skills

Python

Linux

AWS or cloud platform

Distributed systems

Production issues troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Seldon Technologies, Inc. in Zürich seeks an experienced infrastructure engineer to design, build, and scale the research platform.

You will work on cloud compute at scale, implement distributed workflow scheduling, and develop robust recovery procedures while collaborating closely with researchers and engineers to shape the core architecture. You will apply strong Python and Linux skills, plus hands-on cloud experience (AWS or similar) to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.