Site Reliability Engineer - Confidential Computing (f/m/d)

Exoscale; Lausanne; Hybrid; CHF 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Autonomous working conditions

Collaborative culture

Team events

Training and further education

Job summary

cloudControl is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Confidential Computing based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The role involves designing and implementing solutions at the hypervisor level while maintaining existing products and systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong Linux skills, familiarity with Confidential Computing, KVM virtualization, and experience in automation. This position offers flexible working hours and a collaborative culture within a multi-cultural team.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
• Experience with Confidential Computing concepts and hardware.
• Solid experience with Linux and its kernel.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Confidential Computing solutions.
• Maintain and improve Exoscale's operating systems and hypervisors.
• Contribute to routing and security automation systems.

Skills

Linux

Confidential Computing

KVM virtualization

eBPF

Golang

Python

Container runtimes

Configuration management solutions

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer - Confidential Computing (f/m/d)

Posted On 06/12/2026

Job Information

Number of Positions 1

Assigned Recruiter(s) Pierre-Matthieu Alamy, Mathias Fiedler

Hiring Manager Pierre-Matthieu Alamy

Technology

Work Experience 4-5 years

City Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in the EU

State/Province Vaud (fr)

1006

Job Description

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 multi-cultural cutting-edge team distributed across Europe. With headquarters 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 and implementing Exoscale's confidential computing product at the system level, working closely with product teams. It involves deep ownership of hypervisor internals, operating system stacks. The candidate will also take part in the evolution and maintenance of Exoscale's base systems.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:

• Design, development, and implementation of Confidential Computing at the hypervisor level.
• Design and maintain Exoscale’s operating systems and hypervisor fleets, from kernels to the network stacks, including security filtering layers.
• Contribute to the routing & security automation systems implementations.
• Help shape our operating system images strategy, from bare metal to Virtual Machines.
• Maintain and improve the system container runtimes.
• Improve our provisioning and deployment systems.
• Help improve bare metal and hypervisor systems performance.
• Contribute to the overall design and the architecture of the Exoscale platform systems.
• Contribute to internal tooling development.
• Improve our systems and processes to be scalable and highly available, helping achieve outstanding SLAs.
• Participate in code & changes reviews.
• Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period.
• Have a solid experience with Linux, its kernel and Systemd.
• Are familiar with Confidential Computing and related concepts, including hardware level ones (AMD SEV, Intel TDX, or equivalent).
• Are familiar with Secure Boot, chain of trust, attestation, key management.
• Are familiar with KVM virtualization.
• Have a good knowledge of eBPF.
• Have a good knowledge of container runtimes.
• Have a good experience with Golang, Python.
• Have experience with configuration management solutions and large scale infrastructure.
• Love to automate anything that could be and inclined to write documentation.
• Are curious, autonomous and embrace learning new things every day.
• Are team players and are comfortable working in a distributed team.
• Have good English communication skills, written and spoken.

What we offer:

• Flexible working hours and working from home.
• Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create and challenge.
• Collaborative culture, working alongside talented engineers in a supportive environment.
• 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 look forward to receiving your application!