Software Engineer - Orchestration

About the role

DeepJudge, a Swiss-founded enterprise search and AI infrastructure company, is hiring engineers for a greenfield project. Fundamental implementation decisions are still open, and you will help make them, test ideas and build and operate the resulting systems in production. The work focuses on orchestration, storage and distributed systems.

Key responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of core components of the new data platform, from design to running in production.
• Write reliable, production-grade software and help set high engineering standards for a growing system.

Required profile

• Experience building stateful backend systems.
• Strong fundamentals and ability to think from first principles, turning rough ideas into well-designed abstractions.
• Experience shipping and operating backend systems with attention to correctness, reliability and performance.
• Comfortable investigating unfamiliar problems and making technical decisions with incomplete information.

Required skills

• Databases (SQL and/or NoSQL) and a solid understanding of how they work.
• Nice to have: data engineering or big data technologies.
• Nice to have: stateful infrastructure such as job schedulers, workflow engines or data processing systems.
• Nice to have: evaluating and optimizing large LLM workloads for quality and cost.
• Nice to have: startup experience or open-source contributions.

What we offer

• Co-ownership of a core platform and hard, meaningful engineering problems.
• Room to grow as the platform scales.
• Office 5 minutes' walk from Zurich central station, where the team works primarily on site.