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Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge team based in Lausanne or remote. Exoscale strives to create a flexible environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.

We encourage a healthy work-life balance, value input from our team and help everyone grow professionally. Open source is a large foundation of our platform and we encourage and sponsor contributions to existing or new projects.

We participate in global communities, through our attendance and sponsorship of conferences as well as in local events. We value community, fostering and building a great tech scene in our area.

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SIOP Capacity Planner - Cloud Infrastructure (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne

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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 the growing the Business Operations Team, Exoscale is recruiting a SIOP Capacity planner - Business Operations to join our headquarter offices in Lausanne.

Job purpose:
We are looking for a commercially-minded and strategic SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning) Capacity Planner. This vital role is responsible for aligning our European data centre investments with customer demand and financial targets. You will develop and manage the end-to-end capacity plan for our server, storage, and network infrastructure, ensuring our strategy supports sustainable growth and operational excellence.

What you do:
  • Business-Driven Demand Forecasting: Collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Product teams to translate commercial forecasts into a hardware demand plan designed to support revenue targets and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
  • Investment & Supply Planning: Develop a comprehensive hardware capacity plan that ensures optimal capital investment and operational efficiency. Model and plan for data centre constraints, including space, power, and cooling.
  • Hardware Lifecycle Management: Partner with Engineering and Supply Chain teams to manage the entire hardware lifecycle, from new technology evaluation and financial assessment through to deployment and end-of-life (EOL) strategies.
  • SIOP Process Leadership: Coordinate the monthly SIOP cycle, presenting supply-demand scenarios, financial outlooks, and inventory risks to senior leadership. Provide clear recommendations that balance customer requirements with business objectives.
  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as the primary integration point between commercial teams, finance, as well as the hardware engineering and data centre operations teams. Drive alignment on budgets, long-range plans, and execution schedules.

What you offer:
  • A university degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • 3-5 years of professional experience in capacity planning, supply chain management, or financial planning, preferably within the technology or telecommunications sector.
  • A strong commercial and technical understanding of server architecture (compute, memory, storage) and the data centre environment.
  • Proven analytical and quantitative skills, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with data visualisation tools.
  • Demonstrated experience managing a SIOP or S&OP process with a focus on balancing supply, demand, and financial targets.
  • Fluency in English is required.

What makes you unique:
  • A higher education degree in a relevant discipline.
  • Experience with advanced planning systems 
  • Experience developing business cases or financial models to support large-scale capital investments.
  • Familiarity with data analysis using SQL, Python.
  • Professional proficiency in another European language (e.g., German, French, Spanish) is highly advantageous.

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!

Software Engineer – Internal Tooling & Infrastructure (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in EU/EFTA

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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.

To strengthen its internal tooling capabilities, Exoscale is hiring a Software Engineer to join its Tooling team, with a strong focus on Clojure development.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
  • Design, implement and maintain internal tooling written in Clojure to support Kubernetes-based workflows
  • Contribute to distributed systems for job execution and fleet-wide orchestration
  • Extend and operate our Kubernetes operators for managing firewalling and networking (nftables, eBPF)
  • Ensure reliability and robustness of internal systems used daily by engineering and SRE teams
  • Participate in the development and maintenance of Golang-based public open-source tools (e.g., Terraform provider, CLI, Kubernetes controllers, plugins, etc.)
  • Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
  • Collaborate closely with SREs and other infrastructure teams
  • Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period

Ideal candidates will:
  • Have solid experience with functional programming, ideally in Clojure
  • Be comfortable working in Linux environments and have a solid understanding of UNIX systems
  • Have experience with Kubernetes (or a strong desire to deepen their knowledge in this area)
  • Be curious and interested in building and maintaining distributed systems
  • Have experience or interest in Go, especially in the context of infrastructure tooling
  • Be willing to contribute to open-source projects
  • Enjoy working across multiple domains and technologies

Bonus experience:
  • Knowledge of nftables or eBPF
  • Contributions to Kubernetes controllers, CSI, CCM, or other cloud-native components
  • Experience with DevOps/SRE workflows and tooling

What we offer:
  • Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely
  • A modern working atmosphere in a highly technical and passionate team
  • Freedom and autonomy in shaping your work and responsibilities
  • Training budget and opportunities to learn across multiple domains (infra,
  • networking, OSS)
  • Team events, internal talks, and a collaborative remote-first culture

If you’re passionate about building robust internal systems, love functional programming, and want to have an impact across all layers of a cloud infrastructure stack, we’d love to hear from you - even if you don’t meet every requirement.

We are looking forward to your application!

Software Engineer - Distributed Block Storage (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in EU/EFTA

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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.

Exoscale is hiring a software engineer to join our storage team to work on the design and implementation of additional capabilities. You will be part of the effort to design, create and improve a new generation of our block storage offering, focusing on the scalability, reliability and throughput of the system while keeping durability as our main priority.

Block storage is a core component of the Exoscale catalog, enabling both customers and internal systems to gain greater flexibility on their storage usage. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our platform, we are focused on significantly enhancing system performance and reducing overhead, aiming for improvements by multiple orders of magnitude.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
  • Design, improve and maintain our distributed block storage fabric
  • Design, improve and maintain the orchestration of our block storage fabric
  • Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
  • Participate in code & changes reviews
  • Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period

Ideal candidates will:
  • Have experience with cloud infrastructure
  • Have experience with designing, building and operating distributed systems
  • Have experience with deterministic simulation testing
  • Have a good understanding of underlying storage architectures
  • Are familiar with Qemu’s io interfaces and io integrations
  • Are familiar with NVMe interfaces
  • Have experience with Rust or C
  • Have an eye for performance and monitoring

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!

Software Engineer - Backend Storage (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in EU/EFTA

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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.

Exoscale is hiring a backend software engineer to join our object storage team to work on the design and implementation of additional capabilities. You’ll be part of the effort to improve our object storage frontend, by implementing new features within the API as well as optimizing the internals of the service, with a focus on the scalability, reliability and throughput of the system while keeping durability as our main priority.

The object storage is part of the core products of the Exoscale catalog, enabling customers as well as many internal components to offload their storage needs.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
  • Design, improve and maintain our object storage frontend
  • Improve our encryption integration and introducing batch processors
  • Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
  • Participate in code & changes reviews
  • Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period

Ideal candidates will:
  • Have experience with cloud infrastructure
  • Have experience with designing, building and operating distributed systems
  • Have experience with Clojure and Java, with knowledge of Go
  • Have experience with SQL data stores and FoundationDB
  • Have an eye for performance and monitoring

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!

Site Reliability Engineer - Core platform (f/m/d)

Location: Lausanne, Switzerland or remote in EU/EFTA

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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 core platform and security components.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
  • Design and maintain our core Linux-based platform ecosystem.
  • Develop and manage our PKI, secrets management, and security systems.
  • Contribute to internal platform tooling, automation, and orchestration development.
  • Enhance the developer experience (DX) by delivering self-service systems and pipelines.
  • Play a key role in the architecture and design of Exoscale’s platform systems.
  • Improve processes to ensure scalability, security, and high availability.
  • Participate in code and change reviews to maintain high development standards.
  • Join the on-call rotation after completing a training period.

Ideal candidates are:
  • Experienced with Linux, including networking and security filtering.
  • Knowledgeable in platform security components and PKI systems (experience with HashiCorp Vault is a plus).
  • Proficient in Golang (mandatory for this position).
  • Familiar with service discovery and DNS systems at scale.
  • Experienced in containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes is a plus).
  • Comfortable working with KVM virtualization.
  • Skilled in configuration management and large-scale infrastructure.
  • Passionate about automation. You look 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!