Zürich, Switzerland (hybrid) Hybrid

Decentriq is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Responsibilities

  • Own, Design & Operate Data Pipelines – Take full responsibility for all pandas- and Spark-based pipelines, from development through production and monitoring.
  • Advance our ML Models – Improve and productionise models for AdTech use-cases such as look-a-like modelling, audience expansion, and campaign measurement.
  • Engineer for the Invisible – Because data inside confidential enclaves is literally invisible (even to root), build extra-robust validation at the data source, exhaustive test coverage, and self-healing jobs to guarantee reliability.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally – Work closely with data scientists, backend engineers (Rust), and product teams to ship features end-to-end.
  • AI-Powered Productivity – Leverage LLM-based code assistants, design generators, and test-automation tools to move faster and raise the quality bar.
  • Share your workflows with the team
  • Drive Continuous Improvement – Profile, benchmark, and tune Spark workloads, introduce best practices in orchestration & observability, and keep our tech stack future-proof.

Requirements

  • Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field and 5+ years of professional experience.
  • Expert-level Python plus solid hands-on experience with pandas, PySpark/Scala Spark, and distributed-data processing.
  • Proven track record building resilient, production-grade data pipelines with rigorous data-quality and validation checks.
  • Experience running workloads in Databricks, Spark on Kubernetes, or other cloud/on-prem big-data platforms.

Nice to Have

  • Working knowledge of ML lifecycle and model serving; familiarity with techniques for audience segmentation or look-a-like modelling is a big plus.
  • Exposure to confidential computing, secure enclaves, homomorphic encryption, or similar privacy-preserving tech.
  • Rust proficiency (we use it for backend services and compute-heavy client-side modules).
  • Data-platform skills: operating Spark clusters, job schedulers, or orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, custom schedulers).

Benefits

  • Join Decentriq's Engineering team as in individual contribor and earn growing responsibilities
  • Being able to create, shape, and benefit from a young company.
  • An amazing and fun team that is distributed all over Europe.
  • Competitive salary.
  • A lot of opportunities for self-development.
  • No need for a formal motivational letter. Just send your CV along with a few bullet points about why you're excited to work with us.

Team

Structure: Engineering team as individual contributor

Additional Information

  • Start as soon as possible
  • Role can be fully remote (± 4 h CET) or based in Zürich/Berlin office
  • No need for a formal motivational letter
  • Send CV with a few bullet points about why you're excited to work with us
Required Skills
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About company
Decentriq
Decentriq, the “Switzerland of data”, is a confidential data collaboration platform. By enforcing compliance and control with advanced privacy technologies, it helps enterprises scale data collaborations across organizational boundaries and unlock value from data that would otherwise be too sensitive to use. Designed for both data scientists and business users, collaborators use Decentriq’s data clean rooms to analyze sensitive data without sharing it. Powered by confidential computing, data remains encrypted throughout its lifecycle and is verifiably never accessible to another party — not to us, and not even to the cloud provider. Combined with smooth collaboration workflows, fully flexible analysis and maximum interoperability with other technologies, Decentriq makes “sharing without sharing” a scalable strategy. Decentriq powers data collaboration in the world’s most privacy- and compliance-conscious industries, including media, healthcare, banking, and the public sector.
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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category Data & ML
Posted 12 days ago