Hands-on Lead Platform Architect

Location: Zurich, Switzerland (This role is not available remotely)

Job Description

Join us at NetFabric, where we’re transforming network monitoring from the ground up! As our Lead Platform Architect, you’ll influence every stage of our platform’s lifecycle, from design and development to testing, deployment, and maintenance. Your expertise will be crucial in making pivotal decisions on architecture design and tool selection, ensuring our platform’s scalability, reliability, and cutting-edge performance, all while integrating groundbreaking technology from our ETH Zurich research.

Being one of our first hires means you’ll have a major impact on both our product and company culture.
Excited to shape the future of network observability with a passionate team of scientists and entrepreneurs? Let’s innovate together!

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include:

Exploration, implementation, optimization, and maintenance:

• Build MVP prototypes and deliver production versions of the successful ones.
• Play a key role in deciding which technologies and/or technology stacks to use.
• Develop, test, debug, and optimize our network monitoring platform.
• Understand and implement strict security and data protection practices.

Deep-dive into technical challenges:

• Collect vast amounts of data from various sources, using existing tools where possible.
• Efficiently pre-process, store, and analyze vast amounts of data.
• Manipulate data in an intuitive yet efficient manner.
• Test our product on an internally-built network (either fully virtualized or as a mix of virtual and physical devices).
• Suggest and implement new ways to display and visualize complex network behaviors in our platform’s frontend.
• Utilize and implement LLMs, as well as evolve specialized query languages, most importantly to synthesize code.

Collaboration and Coordination:

• Coordinate priorities and deliverables with the rest of the team; work independently within a strong team environment.
• Observe and learn how network operators interact with our tool and suggest improvements.
• Support the technical aspects when developing presentation materials for investors, customers, and new hires.

Requirements

The position requires solid experience in:

• Software architecture (evaluating technologies, designing systems, implementing solutions)
• Software development with experience in at least some of the technologies we will work with:
  • Python (or another high-level programming language widely known by network operators)
  • Rust (or another language suitable for efficient manipulation of vast amounts of data)
  • ClickHouse (or another database that scales very well for data insertion)
  • Kafka (or another distributed event streaming platform for real-time data pipelines)
  • Grafana (or another frontend solution for the user interface of our product)

Preferred additional experience:

• Experience in optimizing systems for scaling, performance and stability
• Software deployment (containerization, docker, kubernetes, …)
• Modern software development best practices
• Fast prototyping
• Ability to mentor junior developers
• Some experience in computer networking, or willingness to learn about computer networking concepts you are unfamiliar with
  

How to apply

Reach out to us at – we can't wait to connect with you! Please include your CV and/or LinkedIn profile in your application and briefly mention what intrigues you about NetFabric. If you are considering applying at a later time, you can subscribe to updates here.

Perks of joining us as an
early team member at a deep tech startup

Work on something new and exciting every day, at the forefront of deep tech

Developing our product involves tackling a wide range of challenges across many domains including data processing, AI, LLMs, databases, networking, modeling, and more.

Experience substantial personal and professional growth

As an early employee in a fast-growing startup with a flat hierarchy, you will have great opportunities to learn and grow.

Work with an exceptional team to shape the product and company

Join our team of top researchers from ETH Zurich and entrepreneurs, and help shape our product and company direction as one of our first employees.

Enjoy a hybrid work environment in our ultra-central Zurich office

Work three days a week in our vibrant Zurich office right next to tram stop Central, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remaining two days.

Benefit from additional insurance coverage and memberships

Our team’s well-being is a top priority. Benefit from our sick pay insurance (Krankentagegeld), semi-private accident insurance, and discounted ASVZ membership.

Receive equity as part of a competitive compensation package

We believe every employee is crucial to our long-term success and deserves a stake in the company as we work towards revolutionizing network monitoring.