Software Engineer

General Information

• Start date: asap
• Latest Start Date: 1.08.26
• Planned duration: 31.12.26 (short term assignment) and 12 months (long term assignment)
• Extension: possible
• Workplace: Kaiseraugst
• Workload: 80-100%
• Home Office: up to 3 days remote
• Working hours: Standard

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Coding! ... including contributions to open source software that we use or maintain!
• Writing and implementing design documents (RFCs)
• Documenting your creations, as well as ensuring great automated test coverage
• Serving as a role model - and helping the team to follow software engineering best-practices

Must Haves

• Highly motivated Software Engineer with ownership mindset
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in large-scale or high-growth environments
• Strong background in scalable systems and modern engineering practices
• Recent hands-on experience with Python and/or Go
• Business domain: compute infrastructure & platforms
• Experience with Kubernetes (usage, concepts, and operations)
• Familiarity with public cloud environments such as AWS
• Experience in test automation, ideally with pytest
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and eager to take responsibility
• English fluency

Nice to haves

• Interest in or experience with tools such as HashiCorp Vault, FluxCD, Kustomize, Terraform, Grafana, GitLab, Slack, and Linear