Platform Engineer / SRE

About Crypto Finance

Crypto Finance Group, part of Deutsche Börse Group, provides professional digital asset solutions to institutional clients. The Group comprises Crypto Finance AG, regulated by FINMA in Switzerland, offering trading, custody, and wallet services, as well as Crypto Finance (Deutschland) GmbH, regulated by BaFin in Germany, offering trading and custody services. As of 25 January 2025, Crypto Finance secured a MiCAR license for the European market as one of the first providers in the EU. Crypto Finance AG is a SIX-approved crypto custodian for ETP issuers.

For more information, please visit our website at About us - Crypto Finance

About the role

From our office in the Prime Tower, Zurich, we build cloud-native systems that enable institutional clients to access, trade, and manage digital assets securely and efficiently.

We are currently looking for a SRE & Platform Engineer focused on application reliability, platform enablement, and the engineering experience of our internal teams. You will ensure that the backend services powering our Trading, Custody, Settlement, Staking, and Pledging platforms run reliably, scalably, and efficiently.

Our systems run on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), orchestrated with Kubernetes, and are composed of ~25 microservices designed for high availability and multi-region capability.

This role is a blend of :

• Application-level SRE : reliability, performance, observability
• Platform engineering : improving the platform used by internal development teams
• Tooling : building internal tools that make engineering faster, safer, and more productive

If you enjoy solving reliability challenges, simplifying developer workflows, and designing cloud-native systems that scale, this role is the perfect fit.

Responsibilities

Application Reliability & Operations

Platform Engineering

Internal Tooling

(examples : CLI tools, deployment helpers, scaffolding generators, debugging aids, automated checks)

CI / CD & GitOps

Observability

Requirements

Benefits

Our culture

At the heart of our company, we prioritize :

Please note :

We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies.

Due to the Swiss labor legislation, we can only accept applicants who have the right to work in Switzerland (are in possession of a Swiss work permit or are EU / EFTA citizens). All other applications will not be considered.

If this is the position for you, and you have a Swiss work permit and / or EU citizenship, please send us your complete application, incl. cover letter, CV, and references.