Senior Platform Engineer

About Us At Swissblock, we are passionate about creating cutting-edge algorithmic trading strategies for the cryptocurrency market using in-depth market analysis. Our software engineers create and maintain the automated trading platform, which covers data ingestion, strategy generation, order execution, and portfolio management. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will improve, maintain and operate the platform underpinning our algorithmic trading system in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), consisting of execution clusters, network architecture, identity and access management, infrastructure and application security, CI/CD, observability, and more. Your Role We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer with experience in deploying scalable enterprise-grade applications in a GCP / Kubernetes environment. You will work with strategic partners such as quant engineers, data scientists, and quant researchers. Together with your team, you will design and implement system architecture, apply SRE and DevOps best practices, perform infrastructure migration, capacity planning and security audits, and enhance automation, resource scaling, cost optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting. You will also drive AI-powered automation and introduce AI-assisted workflows and practices across the team. Most importantly, you will ensure continuous availability and reliability. Key Responsibilities Drive in-depth analysis of architecture, design and implementation of our system Mainta